Narcos (TV Series)

The Palace in Flames (2015)

Boyd Holbrook: Steve Murphy

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• Steve Murphy : [as narrator]  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."

• Elisa : Are you another... janitor at the embassy, like Steve?

  Javier Peña : No, actually, I'm CIA. But that's classified so don't tell anybody. I'm here to hunt communists and prevent a Marxist invasion from Cuba. The janitor thing, what, that was you?

  Steve Murphy : Mm.

  Javier Peña : No, it's just a cover.

  Elisa : Thank you for being so honest.

  Javier Peña : Mm-hm.

  Elisa : Just so you know, I'm a communist guerrillera.

  Javier Peña : [all laughing]  Perfect.

• Steve Murphy : [as narrator]  Financed by Escobar, the M-19 guerrillas stormed the Palace of Justice and occupied the supreme court. They took over 100 hostages and made a bunch of demands about the redistribution of wealth and an end to injustice and tyranny... but it was all bullshit. The military attacked. Dozens of lives were lost in the carnage, including half of Colombia's supreme court justices. Most of the M-19 were killed. Some escaped... but not before accomplishing their true goal: setting fire to the room that contained 600,000 pages of evidence against Escobar. The entire case against him turned to ash. In the United States, the Mafia makes witnesses disappear so they can't testify in court. In Columbia, Pablo Escobar made the whole court disappear.

• Steve Murphy : Berry Seal, a good ol' southern boy who loved college football, mind-altering chemicals and pussy - which made him perfect CIA material.

• Steve Murphy : [narrating]  You may have 800 houses, my friend, but none of them is home. We will keep you on the run for the rest of your life, or until we catch you or kill you. From now on, nowhere is safe.

• Steve Murphy : [as narrator, about Escobar]  And at the time, he owned over 800 homes and fincas, surrounded by dozens of sicarios willing to die for him. And cops... he owned a lot of them, too.

  [raises his voice] 

  Steve Murphy : But not all of them.

• Steve Murphy : [as narrator]  Blackbeard. Pablo's number one accountant and keeper of all secrets. In custody, he would describe a cocaine empire that was bringing in $60 million a day. Pablo was bigger than General Motors.

• Javier Peña : Sometimes you gotta do bad things to catch bad people.

  Steve Murphy : [as narrator]  And sometimes, bad people... help you do good things.

• [first lines] 

  Javier Peña : Murphy, join the party, huh? What's wrong?

  Steve Murphy : All you guys having a good time?

  Javier Peña : You gotta let it go, man. There's good that came out of this.

  Steve Murphy : Yeah, we used him, then we got him killed.

  Javier Peña : No, we didn't kill him Escobar did. And now we get to go after that motherfucker. Look on the bright side, huh?

• Steve Murphy : [greeting him as if he knows him]  Goddamn, is that Barry?

  Javier Peña : Or should we say McPickle?

  Steve Murphy : Come on, we got you a ride waiting over here.

  Javier Peña : [waving to a prostitute inside the house]  Hi, Vanessa.

  Barry Seal aka McPickle : It's fun to say, though, ain't it? "McPickle?"

• Steve Murphy : [as narrator, about Escobar]  You may have 800 houses, my friend, but none of them is home. We will keep you on the run for the rest of your life, or until we catch you... or kill you. From now on, nowhere is safe.

• Steve Murphy : [as narrator]  It's true, the hundred grand wasn't that much. But delivered into the right hands, it could make a difference.

• Javier Peña : I told you we had to be careful. You got Barry Seal killed!

  Steve Murphy : Peña, if he wanted a long life, he should've worked at Kodak.