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HE WHO DOESN'T KNOW HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

PABLO ESCOBAR, THE LORD OF EVIL

Citric, please tell your aunt that we immensely thank her

for greeting us in her house.

It is a pleasure, boss. She's happy to have us here.

Marino, Peluche,

I need you to write a communiqué clearly stating

that we acknowledge the kidnapping of the vice minister

and the prisons 'officer and that we did it to save our lives.

Yes, sir.

And all the other go and rest while we wait to see what's coming next.

In the meantime, you will take turns to watch over the window.

Well, boss, what's coming next?

I don't know, Earring. For the time being, Peluche,

we have to find the way to negotiate again with the National Government.

The least we need now is to keep hiding like fugitives.

I don't understand it, boss. Why did we escape then?

Crust, my little Crust, understand that the criminal,

hypocrite and liar police put us in prison to kill us.

We were going to be assassinated.

Their intention was to eliminate all of us who were inside.

I'm sure they were after the vice minister and that other man.

They would have killed us and said it had happened during a cross fire.

Bastards!

Peluche, call my wife.

Are you sure, brother? That's dangerous. They have probably bugged her phone.

I am sure. She has to know we are okay. Call her please.

Go ahead, dial.

It is ringing.

Hello?

Hi, love, it's me. What's wrong? Why are you crying?

- Are you all right? - Yes, yes.

Fortunately we all are very well, we are together and relaxed.

But what's going on? Why are you crying?

- My cousin. - What cousin?

Alexander.

He was shot three times today at the cattle fair.

How come, Patricia? Do you mean he was killed?

Let me find out what happened.

Honey, I need you to explain me what is going on with you, please.

Unfortunately, we had no other option.

The National Government forced us to escape,

because the order was that the liar and criminal Army break inside the prison

and kill us all. But we are okay.

We are relaxed and safe.

Don't worry and let me find out what happened with your cousin.

What do you mean what happened? Didn't I tell you they killed him?

I know it, I know it, Patty. Calm down, please.

I don't understand it, darling. Alexander was a good person.

He was a cattle dealer who would not harm anyone.

Everybody knew him, they knew he was my cousin!

My guys and I will find out what happened because I find it very strange

that someone dared to mess with a member of my family,

if everybody knows how things work with me.

That's very strange, Patricia.

They found him with a poster on his chest.

What do you mean a poster? What poster?

Yes, sir, a poster reading "PEPES".

PEPES?

What does that mean?

People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar, PEPES,

that's the name of this new organization,

founded with the sole purpose

to finish the worst criminal this country has ever seen.

And we started today with a relative of Mrs. Patricia, Pablo's wife,

an innocent man just like my boss was.

All right, gentlemen. I suggest we should start soon

because Pablo won't take long to find out who we are and what we are doing, okay?

So let's move.

As far as I know,

Escobar's partners are buying information from the office of the public prosecutor.

Yes, sir, but that doesn't bother us. We are not asking for a reprieve.

We are simply going to end Escobar

and all of his people for the sake of this country.

I have a question: what about the Motoa brothers?

I already talked to them, to the family.

They will not join us in this, they are neutral. That's what they say.

Listen, Miguel. There are no neutral people in a war.

They are with Pablo, they have always been.

That's not true.

Well, we'll attack them anyway,

take advantage of the fact that all the Motoas are in jail,

will put a rocket in there and bye!

There is not a chance for the PEPES to attack the Motoas!

Because that would mean betraying them and acting just like Escobar does.

And if you keep insisting on that, don't count on me.

All right man, calm down. This is against whom?

Against Escobar.

All right, sit down then. Calm down, brother.

Listen, you all know I was in prison with Pedro Motoa

and that young man is quiet correct.

If he says he's not going to interfere is because he's not going to interfere.

All right. Let this be clear: we, the PEPES, go against Pablo Escobar,

his family, his properties, even his dog if there is one.

- Is that clear? - Sure.

- Cheers then, gentlemen! - Cheers!

Cheers, gentlemen!

I am not going to reject your offer, general.

If you say we need to rearm the Elite Group,

or the Search Bloc as it is going to be called now,

I'll be in Colombia tomorrow to command it. As you order, general.

They located us!

Forget it, Peluche. If that was so,

they would have already been shooting us, not running around like a blind dog.

But three more runs, sir, and they will get us.

Listen, the best for us is to leave this place.

Crust, Earring, go on your own and look for a shelter.

When things calm down a bit and we have found another safe place,

- we'll meet again. - All right, boss.

Boss, where will you go?

We will go to Laureles where Mole has another hideout.

In the meantime, do me the great favor to find out who those famous PEPES are.

Everybody should know by now, boss.

But don't worry. Earring and I will find out who they are.

- Go ahead then, son. That's a priority. - Right away, boss!

- Good luck and discretion. - God bless you, boss.

Let the Holy Child of Atocha accompany us.

Take much care, boss, please.

Bye, guys!

Okay, okay. Too much farewell. Go ahead, Crust. Go ahead, son.

Look what I found, colonel.

I can't believe the luxuries these people had in here.

A five-star prison.

And what's that?

Those are soap opera stars.

Fantastic.

- Gentlemen? - Yes, general.

Is that the way you are going to find Pablo Escobar?

I'm sorry, general, but do you think that man is in here?

We don't know that.

Let's do what we came for. Move!

Pablo Escobar failed Colombia.

The government, in an unprecedented fact

and with the intention to return tranquility

to a country overwhelmed by violence and terrorism,

granted a special reclusion place to Escobar,

from which this criminal and some of his henchmen escaped.

But enough is enough.

I'm not going to allow Pablo Escobar to make fun even one more minute

of the Colombian people and my government.

Today I have authorized the forming of a police special group

we have called the Search Bloc,

made up by the best members of the institution commanded by colonel Pabón,

whose only mission is to capture Pablo Escobar

and the members of his organization.

Nobody in Colombia or in the world should have any doubt

that Pablo Escobar will be caught sooner or later.

Thank you very much.

This is terrible, really terrible, Pedro. You can't imagine what I had to live.

Yes, I do.

Especially all those attacks and pursuits after Pablo escaped.

I know how that is.

Pedro, I came here because I consider you as my friend,

I owe many things to you, I feel lots of affection for you,

and need someone to give me an advice.

What do I do? I feel lonely, threatened, desperate,

walking around with the children and with no place to go.

Listen, Patricia, at this stage, there is nothing you can do

but asking Pablo Escobar to surrender again.

But for God's sake, Pedro. He says the government betrayed him,

that they were going to kill him, that they were going to extradite him.

Listen, what you should do is to convince Pablo

that by no means he can go back to The Cathedral.

The intelligence groups, the Search Bloc and the government know exactly

what happened inside that place.

What are you talking about, Pedro? About luxuries?

Yes, about that.

Is that so serious

for the government to threaten us like that?

Well, that's one of the things.

And after the death of your cousin you understood the other one,

which is practically more dangerous than the first one.

Pedro, tell me something:

were those people who killed my cousin friends of Pablo?

Please tell me the truth. Who are those PEPES? Please!

Listen, Patricia.

I want you to have this thing very clear and transmit it to Pablo:

we, the Motoas, neither I nor my brothers of any member of my family

has anything to do with that war.

We no longer want problems with anybody. Pay attention to me.

Advise Pablo to surrender again

before the Search Bloc or the PEPES themselves will find him and kill him.

What about the name those sons of bitches chose?

People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar as if we were the ones after them,

when they are the ones hunting us?

They recruit more and more people each time.

Mauricio Restrepo, Lucio Moreno and Libardo Aldana do nothing

but distributing money in the communes as mad.

Let them distribute all the money they want

and we'll see who will be the ones with money to distribute.

Pablo Escobar had transformed the Cathedral prison in a five-star hotel.

The cells were unlocked rooms, there was a Jacuzzi, gambling rooms,

TV sets, audio and video systems, even a personal chef for Escobar.

But, Mr. Minister, how can it be possible

the most dangerous man in this country was able to do everything he wanted

in that jail without the knowledge of the Government?

I understand your comment, I do. The problem is that he fooled us all.

The guards, as well as the soldiers watching over him, were his accomplices.

So what then?

The general in charge of the battalion was dismissed from active service,

the director of the prison was removed,

and the respective investigation to the guards was of course started.

And what happened to the Vice Minister of Justice?

The Vice Minister of Justice quit his job

and he must have to answer for his actions

before the Attorney General's Office and the Congress.

What actions?

They think he also acted in complicity with Escobar.

Excuse me, sirs. I am going to New York.

- New York? - New York, New York.

But do you understand? I am going to New York, brother.

This bus goes to New York?

No, over there.

- No, this one goes to New York. - This one goes to New York?

I will put the luggage inside.

Really? I will put the luggage inside.

Thanks. Excuse me, excuse me.

Listen, guys. This is the situation:

we have practically lost all control

over the northeast commune,

so this house will no longer serve us as a shelter.

We must leave this place.

Boss, each one of us is already in a different house,

and we are trying to move as little escorted as possible.

That's very good, because the most important thing now

is to keep a low profile and not be that visible.

Yes. Now that we have those PEPES after us, sir. Very close.

Exactly, Marino.

What do we have to do, boss? What have you thought?

We are in Mole's hands at this moment.

What we have to do now is to restart the war

and bombard this country from one end to the other,

from the Guajira to the Amazon. All of it.

Boss, the truth is that, when you surrendered to the Cathedral,

we had to hand all that dynamite, and getting more is going to be difficult.

That's your problem, not mine. You have to take care of that

because that's the only weapon we have at this moment.

Yes, sir.

Boss, I have a question about our giving in again:

will it be serious?

Very serious, Earring, because we have to wait

to see how the country and the National Government will react

after the bombs we are going to put.

Then we will see if there is a possibility to sit and talk to the government again.

And watch it because we can't forget what Marino said about the PEPES.

We didn't have that enemy, a year ago.

That's true, Peluche.

The serious thing about it is that the PEPES are being financed

by many sectors and many people like the paramilitary,

the Moreno brothers, Libardo Aldana, Mauricio Restrepo, the men from Cali

and a great part of the Colombian oligarchy.

So it is very serious, very dangerous, because they know us,

they know our families, our properties.

So we have to be very...

We have to be very watchful, very cautious, very alert.

There is no problem with that.

What really worries me are the so called Search Blocs.

Don't worry about that, Vulture,

because, even if they had the order to recapture us at this moment,

we continue to be strong, with enough power to face this war

and win it against whoever is necessary.

Don't worry, trust me.

Okay, we are leaving.

Thanks, son.

But, colonel, the President was the only one the gringos didn't send.

They were the first ones to send assistance to us:

CIA, DEA, DELTA, they have supported us with money,

personnel and communications. The Americans have behaved well.

A year ago, we were breaking in all of Pablo's houses in Medellín.

And don't be surprised, if we have to do it again.

I understand your son belongs to the Search Bloc, colonel.

Yes, he is working in communications bugging,

learning, though in the end we all have the same objective:

capture Pablo Escobar no matter how.

Colonel, and if how we do it doesn't matter,

why don't we accept the help the famous PEPES are offering us?

Becerra, the PEPES are drug traffickers, terrorists and criminals

just like Pablo Escobar.

And those criminals are the only ones who have information, colonel.

Look around, Becerra.

Do you think that, after all we have worked,

with all this international support we are getting,

we really need to get into debt with favors from those antisocial men?

This is the last time we address the subject, Becerra.

It's an order!

- Where is Pablo Escobar? - I repeat I don't know, sir!

Don't lie to me because all your friends told me you work with him!

Sir, Mole hired me as his bodyguard. I don't know Pablo Escobar!

Leave that dummy alone.

That guy has no idea where Pablo Escobar is,

otherwise he would have told us. He's nothing but a second-rate worker.

Thank you.

Thanks for what, you stupid son of a bitch?

This country needs to open up to the world but also to open up to itself.

That's why it is important for us

to increase the road infrastructure in Colombia. Engineer...

Mr. President, why build new roads if we are afraid to go outside?

- Why do you say you are afraid? - Pablo Escobar is free, Mr. President.

But we will soon capture him

for you and those scared Colombians to feel free to go out.

I swear it. Thank you very much.

Why do you keep tormenting yourself because of the same subject?

There is not one single day people don't question me because of Escobar.

In Colombia and abroad, Escobar is all they talk about.

But the fact that he escaped from prison is not your fault.

Ana Milena, Pablo Escobar escaped from a hotel because that wasn't a prison.

I am the President and it is my fault.

But you are already doing everything you can to capture him.

But we need to do more.

I have to get rid of this problem right away.

Cesar, you did all you had to.

You can't go to Medellín and pursue him yourself.

Even Americans are helping you.

Yes, but nothing happens.

Calm down and commit yourself to govern the country

because Colombia has other problems besides Pablo Escobar.

The Search Bloc is going to produce results. You will see.

Did Pablo go mad or what, Peluche? What am I going to do in the USA?

All Pablo wants is to protect you and the children.

He says you are going to be better in the States,

at least while all this commotion in Medellín is over.

So what then? Is he going to stay here alone?

No, Patricia, he isn't alone.

Listen, Peluche. I'm very sorry,

but without his wife and his children he will be alone.

Don't be stubborn, Patricia. Have the passports ready,

- buy the air tickets and leave, okay? - No.

- Are the visas in order? - Listen, Peluche.

We won't move before I personally talk to Pablo, and that's it!

No, no, that's not it.

Hullo!

- How are you, sir? - Buddy...

Where is Mole?

The guy couldn't come. Is the parcel ready or what, son?

You know what, buddy? 5000 kilograms of dynamite is too much.

The truck that will pick all that up won't take long.

I will make a call to see if I can get the rest. I have 2500 kilograms.

- Move, son. - Wait a second.

C'mon. That bastard ran away! C'mon, c'mon!

Hey midget, take this shit. We were caught, they got us.

Sir, we located them.

Keep them cornered, quiet until the police get in

and, as soon as they arrive, you leave, got me?

Yes, sir.

This is the Search Bloc. May I help you?

I have information about a key Escobar worker. Are you interested?

What do you mean they are going to shoot you? Who is going to do it?

The PEPES, boss.

They have been following me since the dynamite business.

This is the only place I could come.

How many times have I asked you not to lock yourselves up?

If you do that, they will corner you, man!

I had no other place to go, boss.

Either I locked myself in here or I would be shot right on the street.

And on top of all that, those damned cops have just arrived.

Listen to me very well, Vulture. If the police get in, they will kill you!

So stay there all you want. Resist. Don't let them get you!

I will send reinforcements immediately!

Boss, don't abandon me, please. Send the guys as soon as you can!

Hurry! They are going to kill the Vulture, move!

The door...

Listen, bastards!

I only will leave this place with the Army! You got me?

Boss, the Army people got in!

Well, son, we'll have to do what the Lord told Jeremiah:

"Even deer in the field give birth and abandon their young

because there is no grass." Let's run, son. Let's go!

Give in, man! The Army is here already!

Whom do you think you're talking to?

To the Vulture, Pablo Escobar's deputy, aren't you?

So you really joined the PEPES, didn't you, bastards?

Listen to this jerk. Colonel, let me get inside.

Surrender, Vulture. The Army is here already.

- Let one man get in. - It may be a trap.

- No. - Let me go!

Okay, Vulture. I will let you see one.

Let him in.

Cardozo, soldier Cardozo.

Look at him, and I have 20 more like him.

Father, Thy will be done. Saint Raphael, accompany me.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

Let it be clear that if I'm going to give in to the National Army

it's only because I want to resort to the surrender justice program.

Is that clear or not?

Listen to this, man. Surrender to justice. Handcuff him, Pantoja.

Breaking news!

Alias Vulture, an important member of the Medellín Cartel,

was captured in Medellín during a joint operation

of the Search Bloc and the National Army.

Colonel Ramiro Becerra was in charge of such operation.

That's pure shit!

The Vulture was betrayed by the man who used to sell the dynamite to him.

This means another friendly contact that became a PEPE.

We are fucked,

because, if they don't get the reward money from the Police,

they will do it from the PEPES bribery.

They must be paying them a lot

to make our allies turn to the other side just like that.

And, besides that, they are allied with the assassin and criminal police.

I'm glad the Vulture had endured, that he had faced the terrorist army.

Pablo, are you sure you want to keep fighting?

Because it is obvious this is an uneven fight.

I've never quit in my life, Peluche, and I'm not going to do it.

If the war is with money, we'll have to get more money.

Well, where are we going to get it, if nobody is drug trafficking?

And much less we are getting any profits.

It's better to spend money than to keep it.

I'm thinking about your hiding places.

Lord, we beg You to protect Your son and our brother Vulture

with Your holy robe.

That these moments in prison will become a consolation

and allow starting reconciliation between You and this poor Christian

who have trusted You. We ask thy Lord.

We ask thy Lord.

But with faith. We ask thy Lord.

- We ask thy Lord. - That's it.

Amen! In the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost, amen.

Easy, easy. It is a delivery, a little visit.

This is all for the day, guys, you hear? You can go home, relaxed.

Thank you very much for spending the day with me. I'll see you tomorrow.

Go and shave that down so we can do the First Communion arrangements.

Directly to home, okay?

- Hello! - Hi, my loves.

- How are you? - Get in, get in. Make yourself at home.

Bye, son. All right, take care.

Oh no, no. Look what Kiko is missing for having travelled to the States.

Relax, I can handle you both. I ate fish already.

Let me show you the house. This way, this way. Oh shit...

Look, this is the altar. You have to cross yourselves with respect.

In the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost, amen.

Get inside. The bedroom is that way.

Look, that's a big bed. It is a big bed, my love.

Spit it now, Becerra. Tell the truth. How did you get to the Vulture?

Let's say it was through an informant.

An informant not interested in the reward? Strange.

He was betrayed. The PEPES were after him

and, since they couldn't make it, they called the Police

and asked them to conclude the mission.

You said it, major.

The mission.

Look, Pabón. I understand your control with this whole issue,

but take it this way:

all criminals in this city are turning against Pablo Escobar,

and want us to catch him.

I don't see why we couldn't accept their collaboration.

And don't you think that would mean

giving Pablo Escobar a cause for future arguments

and the chance to say that we, the Search Bloc, work hand in hand

with those delinquents called PEPES?

With due respect,

the District Attorney's Office has just pardoned 12 criminals

in exchange for all that information we get every day from Bogota.

I don't see why we have to accept that information

and not the one from the criminals who are on the street

offering collaboration to the justice in exchange for nothing.

And 100 million each for fugitives,

alias Marino, alias Mole, alias Kiko.

We ask thy Lord.

That's it! Amen.

In the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost.

Total reserve.

All right, my loves.

Today you're going to be with a holy man and to get even you will have to confess.

- Oh, what a bad boy you are. - Not bad, my love.

And I confess both in the south and the north.

So you will go to the south and you will stay up here in the north.

You are so funny.

Funny? Funny and a half, my love. C'mon. Say your sins because...

What a fuck...

Lord, have mercy on Your servant because I am sick,

and, when I go down to hell, how am I going to help You, Lord?

Are you watching this? He is my brother. They killed my brother!

They killed my brother! How could they dare killing him?

What's the matter with you?

Nothing, man! They killed my brother, man!

Easy, easy. Your identification, please.

- What do you need, sir? - Your ID.

ID. Look, here it is. Carlos Restrepo at your service.

- They killed my young brother. - You are under arrest.

What? Why? Don't leave me, don't leave me!

But why are you arresting me, sir? I haven't done anything wrong!

I have done nothing, man!

Bye, my love. Bye.

He's gone.

C'mon, Peluche, tell me what's happening.

What do you mean?

Don't play dumb. Where do all those murders,

those captures and that fighting come from?

You know how things are, Dad. You know how Pablo is.

I know how Pablo is, but I'm asking you. Look, Peluche,

why don't you surrender before you are found dead who knows where?

We are working on that.

Don't worry because we are going to solve that situation. Just relax.

Listen, for being relaxed all these years, I didn't realize all what happened to you,

and now my youngest son happens to be the worst criminal in this country

and the other one accompanies him.

No, no, Dad. If you pay attention to all what they say on TV, we are fucked!

Stop it, Peluche! Stop it! I may be old but not stupid!

Or are you going to deny me

that you and Pablo are a couple of drug traffickers, kidnappers,

- criminals, assassins? - Hey, hey, Dad, please!

Half of what the government says is pure shit!

Listen, Dad, we are your sons, you know us,

we wouldn't be able to do any of those things.

If half is a lie, the other half is true. Right, Peluche?

Maremoto looks so beautiful. Have you taken good care of him?

Tell me.

Listen, Dad. Remember that this horse is worth gold.

Samuel, please take the horse out, will you? So he will get some air.

Peluche, I'm talking to you, man.

This series is freely adapted from La Parábola de Pablo by Alonso Salazar.

Based on news articles and real events, the historical facts are surrounded

by fictional characters and dialogues that recreate non documented situations.