Narcos

"Plata o Plomo?" (15.07.2019)

"Sometimes you gotta do bad things to catch bad people." (15.07.2019)

"Cockroach knew he had the perfect product. He just needed to smuggle it to the right markets. And the best smugglers in the world were in Colombia. Like Goldilocks, he had three options. And pay attention, because all three are important to this story. Jorge. A typical Colombian smuggling family. They were smart and rich. But Cockroach felt the high life had made 'em too soft. Another possible partner was José Rodríguez Gacha, nicknamed "The Mexican," for his love of tequila and sombreros. He dominated the emerald smuggling routes. Emeralds are a pretty rough trade, even by Colombian standards. If you make it to the top it means you've killed your enemies. And sometimes, your partners. Cockroach worried that the emerald trade had made Gacha too hard. So he zeroed in on a third option. A man Cockroach knew would be just right. Yeah, you guessed it: Pablo Escobar. The man who would change my life forever." (15.07.2019)

"How important is this cat to you?" (15.07.2019)

"Pablo held most of his campaign rallies in the poorest neighborhoods of his electoral district. He placed himself on the side of the poor and the weak in the fight against the oligarchs, "The Men of Always." And just like any politician, he made plenty of promises. Only difference was Pablo had the men and the money to back them up." (16.07.2019)

There's an old saying in law enforcement: "The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once." (16.07.2019)

"It's been said that nothing gives the fearful more courage than another's fear." (16.07.2019)

"At the time, the only thing more dangerous than being a Colombian cop was being a Colombian presidential candidate." (16.07.2019)

"The Medellín cartel was Miami: swimming pools, bikini girls tacky as a two-tone Cadillac. The Cali cartel was New York: elegant, smooth, subtle." (17.07.2019)

César Gaviria: This is a deal with the devil. Julio Turbay: You are the president of a country that became a living hell some time ago. With whom else did you expect to be making a deal? (20.07.2019)

"The purpose of war... is peace." (20.07.2019)

"There is a time to fight... and there is a time to be clever." (21.07.2019)

"You know, in all the years I chased Escobar, I could count on one hand the times we almost had him. And each time, we forgot the two most important things we already knew about him: Close doesn't count, and Pablo is never more dangerous than when you almost have him." (21.07.2019)

"Okay, here we go again. Let me break it down for you: 4,000 soldiers, a 250-man team of Colombia's elite forces, tens of thousands of rounds fired, seven dogs, and four fuckin' helicopters. Pablo Escobar was surrounded in the middle of fuckin' nowhere. There was no way he was getting out of this one - right?" (21.07.2019)

"Unlike the US, where the attorney general is appointed by the president, in Colombia, the Supreme Court chooses the attorney general, whether the president likes it or not. And in the case of Gustavo de Greiff, you bet your ass Gaviria didn't." (21.07.2019)

"This is Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. And if you've never heard of him, it's because that's exactly the way he wants it. Ask him what he does for a living and he'll tell you that he's a banker, and that would be true. In fact, he and his brother Miguel controlled their own bank. Or he might tell you that he and his brother owned and operated one of Colombia's largest chains of drug stores. The brothers could also tell you they ran their own soccer team. Which they did. América de Cali, one of the best teams on the continent and a fierce rival of Pablo's Atlético Nacional. But what they'd never tell you is that these businesses were a front and that the Rodríguez brothers were the second biggest cocaine traffickers in the world: the leaders of the Cali cartel." (21.07.2019)

"When Pablo Escobar starts believing the pen's mightier than the sword you know you're getting to him. Carrillo's attacks on Pablo's facilities in Medellín were putting him - under more and more pressure. The way Carrillo saw it each sicario we took out got us one step closer to Escobar." (21.07.2019)

"Centra Spike was still busy gathering intel. The brass was still reviewing and approving it. And it was still finding its way to us. But shit man, you can have all the intelligence in the world, but if nobody's there to act on it, what's it worth? Nothing." (21.07.2019)

"Call it faith, optimism, or stubbornness, the people of Medellín thought they'd seen it all, but they hadn't. In fact, they hadn't seen anything yet. Medellín was about to get a show they would never forget." (22.07.2019)

"Terror brings more terror, and Los Pepes responded with their own special brand. We came up with a name for their displays. "Colombian folk art." Like I said, you can't make this shit up. The point of all this? Psychopaths sending a message. No matter how far you go, we'll take it one step further. The gates of hell were officially opened. And everyone was scrambling to get out of the fire. Or climb into it." (22.07.2019)