All language subtitles for Almost Paradise - S01E01 - Finding Mabuhay_

[ music playing ]

[ gun hammer clicks ]

[ gunshot ]

Woman: 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
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.

Is that my good blood pressure
or my 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."
Unh-uh.

If you don'’t take them,
with your level of hypertension,

- your heart will become enlarged.
- I know.

- A ticking time bomb.
- No, there'’s no ticking.

Just boom. Heart failure.

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

[ scoffs ]
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.

- [ beeping ]
- I don'’t think I--

- This is your hypertension journal.
- [ beeping continues ]

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 would be
a great place to retire.

So, I sold what little I had

and I bought myself
a gift shop.

[ laughs ]
No stress.

No drama.

Just peace and quiet.

[ music playing ]

- 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, it 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 under--

I don'’t understand.
I thought I bought the gift shop outright.

You buy gift shop
and apartment.

Hotel own the land
it sits on.

- I manage.
- You--

This is not how
I remembered it.

You'’ll fix. No problem!

This shop give you
lots of money!

- So much money!
- [ crashing ]

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.

- [ groans ]
- Oh!

You fix, no problem.

[ beeping ]

[ beeping continues ]

[ motorcycle engine revving ]

This is how we roll in Manila.

You guys ready?

Remember, I do all
the talking, all right?

- Teo!
- Gentlemen.

- My man!
- Welcome.

- What can I offer you to drink?
- Uh, well,

- do you have an Old Rock?
- 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.
- Hold it, hold it, Teo.

You know what?
These boys, they'’re now working for the Manila boys.

- Hmm.
- And on this island,

that means me, hmm?

- Me.
- Hmm.

[ squelching ]

And now you'’re
affiliated with me.

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

before transshipment
to the United States.

Anyone else want an Old Rock?

[ music playing ]

790 pesos.

Hey, sweetheart,
can I get a Jim Beam neat?

Or a beer.

Beer would be just fine.

Hey.

[ beeping ]

Look away.
This has nothing to do with you.

And I was really starting
to like this place.

Hey, guys. How are you?

Listen, anybody up
for a game of Snooker?

Hey, Amboy, shove off.
We'’re busy.

Where'’s all this mabuhayI'’ve been
hearing so much about?

- You new here, bitch?
- Easy, Lodi.

Yeah, easy, Lodi.
You'’re starting to sweat.

That vein on your forehead
is starting to pulsate.

Your left hand'’s twitching,
your breathing'’s erratic.

I'’d say your blood pressure'’s, what,
180 over 90?

I didn'’t understand
what you said.

But what I did hear
was your heart

about to come out
of your chest.

You may be on your way
to a coronary

or even an aneurism.

You don'’t want
to die today, do you?

- Freeze! Police!
- Police!

A friend at the American
embassy got me this.

Apparently he'’s 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.

What'’s a U.S. Drug Enforcement
special agent doing here?

Ex-special agent.
He went loco.

They gave him a 776.

Means they kicked him out.

Agent Walker.

What are you--

It'’s a hypertension journal.
Lots to log.

Why didn'’t you tell Detective Mendoza
and the other detectives

that you were
a U.S. DEA agent?

Could'’ve been my nerves,
'’cause they were yelling at me.

You broke up
a sting operation

we'’ve been working
on for three months.

You were about to
be killed, all right?

I made your partner as an undercover soon as
he walked in the door.

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? I'’ve 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, and 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

that our local
department doesn'’t have.

We could use your assistance.

[ beeping ]

She'’s good. She'’s great, all right?
She fooled me.

She could handle this.
You don'’t need me, okay?

You made a mess out of this case.
Now you have to fix it.

Doctor'’s orders, you know?
I-- look--

Man on recording: Breathe in 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.

You'’re dead now, DEA.

[ strains ]

Dude, are you kidding me?

I just got the trim right!

[ growls ]

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--
- 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 kinds you got?
- [ laughs ]

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 this heart monitor.
It'’s a piece of crap.

I mean, and it works great,

but it'’s designed
to look like a Maccata.

Problem is, that says
"Made in China."

Maccata is 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?
Smuggle it out illegally before the officials

even knew it was part
of the infrastructure.

I'’d say the ingredients
were smuggled on the island

and cooked right here.

Helps develop the drug
and finance production.

And 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 is 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.
- Oh, all right. Okay.

Didn'’t mean to offend you.

Stakeouts are a very important
information gathering tool.

What'’s up with Silent Bob here?
Does he ever talk?

- When I have something to say.
- Hey, man.

They'’re moving.

- This is the best car you could find?
- What? It'’s nondescript.

That'’s the problem.
It screams nondescript.

Does it offend your fragile
sense of masculinity?

Yeah, but that'’s not the point.

The point is never appear

like you'’re trying
not to be noticed, right?

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.

And when you'’re surveilling,

you don'’t want to look
like either one.

Rule number one,
forget you'’re a cop.

Forget you'’re a cop.
How could that go wrong?

Bingo.

- They 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. Whoa, whoa, hey.
Hey, boat'’s this way.

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

- We'’re going to do this right.
- You want to do it ri--

All right,
let'’s do it right.

All right.
I gotta go-- I gotta pee.

Uh, where'’s the head at?
Right there. Okay.

Sorry, guys. I apologize.
I gotta pee. I'’ll be back.

[ sighs ]

Ooh, I love it when
people are prompt.

What do I see here?
Very nice.

Good job, gentlemen.
Very good.

Unh-uh, unh-uh.

I got it.

That'’s a lot of money.

Who the hell are you?

Who, me?

I'’m just the 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?
- Ernesto: Do you think he'’s on the boat?

- I bet 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.

Oh, whoa. Ooh-hoo.

[ radio feedback ]

Walker:
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 going to
want to kiss me.

- We'’re going into business together.
- Business. Really?

- Yeah.
- Now what kind of business would I be doing

- with an American DEA agent?
- Ex-DEA. Ex.

- I'’ve gone rogue.
- Really? Why would you do that?

- Hypertension.
- Hmm. So now you'’re a criminal.

Fifteen years
I'’ve been in the weeds,

watching guys like you
get richer and richer.

Guys like me
only get beaten, broken.

For what?
You know, for nothing.

I'’ve been on the losing end

of this drug war
for way too long.

Okay, so, what?
You'’re the 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, right?

You can make great
quantities of supply,

but it'’s going to cost you a fortune to reach the demand.
That'’s were 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, but here'’s the best part.

You don'’t pay me.
I pay you.

- 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, in evidence lockers.

Lockers that I got access to.

Okay, if you'’re really
an ex-DEA agent,

what were you doing
in the beerhouse?

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 undercover cops.

I had to do something,
all right?

I want to work with you,
I do,

but not if 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.

Ahh--

Now I want you to see

what happened to the last
man who disappointed me.

Say hello to Kobe Rodriguez.

Now you won'’t be
disappointing me, right?

Whoa, man.

You'’re surprisingly strong.

- Pilates.
- Ah.

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 we supposed to get
the $2 million in cash?

I got to think
of everything?

Yes. All of those places.

Oh, Agent Zivic,
this is Detective Mendoza.

We'’ll be taking over
the case from here.

Teo'’s an international criminal.
This is beyond your jurisdiction.

My team will be running
the investigation going forward.

[ chuckles ]

Alex Walker.

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

[ beeping ]

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

- 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 Teo.

[ monitor beeping ]

[ muffled beeping ]

I want a clean record.

I want Special Agent pension,
not this disability crap.

I don'’t want to have to have doctors signing off
for me to get my checks.

I can make that happen.

I'’ll call Washington
after the bust.

Okay, we'’re a go
for 1100 hours tomorrow.

Agent Walker!

Come on, it'’s time.

Oh, hell, no.

What the hell
is wrong with you?

People are
counting on you!

It doesn'’t matter.

A couple 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 Teo 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 '’em,

they'’re right back out on
the streets in a couple weeks,

traded for some
political favor,

or they'’re like their boy Teo,
a paid asset or whatever!

This drug war has gone on
longer that World War I, II,

Vietnam, both Iraq and
Afghanistan, combined!

Are there fewer drugs
out there? Huh?

- 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,

which was to kill me.

But he didn'’t.

Didn'’t he?

Trust in my partner was
the only thing that I had.

Now what do 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.

Stray bullet from
a drug deal gone bad.

And 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 beerhouse.
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 can'’t.

- I do that, too.
- You do what?

Ask the ocean for advice,
guidance.

Is that 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?
- Mabuhay.

Breathe it in.

It'’s all around you,

everywhere you look.

So what are we doing?

It'’s just...

these guys
with the DEA, Interpol,

okay, they are not
like you guys.

You guys-- you guys
are cops, all right?

Somebody breaks the law,
you go get '’em.

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.

[ mic feedback ]

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

Your faith in me
is overwhelming.

Man:
We have incoming.

Okay, we are a go.

Show us what you got.

[ radio chatter ]

Team One?

Team One in position.

- Zivic: Team Two?
- Team Two in position.

- Zivic: 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,
the code word is "avocado."

Don'’t say it until
he'’s accepted the money,

and you can confirm the drugs he'’s handing you
are the real McCoy.

We hear the code word,
we'’ll execute an ingress, you got it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
"Avocado." I got it.

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

What?
You at a loss for words?

[ scoffs ]

- It'’s a trap. I did.
- 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 him.

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.

Think it through, man.

Either I am on your side,
in which case

I'’m the only shot you got
of getting out of here,

or I'’m a DEA agent,
and by shooting me

it destroys any chance you got

of cutting a deal
with these guys

that you know
you'’re gonna be offered.

But either way,
get that friggin'’ gun out of my face!

Why aren'’t you guys responding to the radio?
Zivic is pissed!

You'’re on the wrong
damn channel.

Zivic says they'’re about
to exit the east side,

wants you guys to back up
the team over there.

- Well, I got to confirm with Zivic.
- You do that.

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

- So we just leave this post?
- Nothing'’s happening here.

Zivic'’s got me and
the local PD covering.

Hurry.
They'’re about to move.

Come on, guys.
Let'’s move! Move!

Walker: 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?

The answer'’s yes and yes!
This is gonna be...

Go! Go! You guys,
you gotta move faster, okay?

Keep getting rid
of all this evidence.

All this stuff gone.
You gotta move faster!

Teo, come with me.
Grab your boys.

Gentlemen, let'’s go!

Hold on.

What the hell was that?

Walker: Very nice.

Okay, bringing out the salad.

- Salad?
- He'’s saying Teo's bringing out the drugs.

He leading towards
the code word.

- How did you--
- Always have an exit strategy, Teo.

Walker:
Just what the doctor ordered.

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

[ shuffling ]

Man on recording:
You are calm, serene, and at peace.

Always.

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 going to
have to worry about that

because you'’re going to be
floating right next to it.

I'’m getting 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, huh?

You gonna stick me in
your 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.

Good-bye, Mr. Walker.

On this island,
we say "Paalam."

Paalam!

Lower your weapons.

- Okay, okay.
- Jimmy Teo,

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.

[ all shouting ]

- Kai: Walker!
- [ sirens chirp ]

[ crowd chattering ]

- [ crowd shouting ]
- [ radio chatter ]

This 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.

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

You know this won'’t stand.

This is a multi-national narcotics bust.
Teo is coming with me.

Narcotics?

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

No, 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.
It'’s not healthy.

You should have
that checked out.

Come on.

Starting to look real
good in here, Alex.

Ah, thank you.

Probably should'’ve 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 could eat.
- Come on.

I think you'’ll like this.

[ crowd chattering ]

[ music playing ]

Wow.

Everyone! Everyone!
Your attention please.

This is Special Agent
Alex Walker!

[ cheering, applause ]

What'’s going on here?

You said they never
threw you a parade.

Well, here it is.

I-- oh.

- 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.