Narcos (TV Series)

Going Back to Cali (2017)

Pedro Pascal: Javier Peña

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Quotes 

• Chucho Peña : [carrying a large fence post]  You helping me with this or not? I thought I was getting a partner.

  Javier Peña : Come on, Pop. Give me that.

  Chucho Peña : Stubborn. You can stand here for an hour and you'll count 20 of 'em going by.

  Javier Peña : [switching to Spanish]  So do you have to fix the fence every time a storm hits?

  Chucho Peña : Someone has to do it. That's how life works.

  Chucho Peña : [switching back to English]  You thinking of taking them up on it? Mexico. It's different there.

  Chucho Peña : Son, let me tell you...

  Javier Peña : Dad. I've done enough. I'm through.

  Chucho Peña : Hand me that cutter.

• Corporate Jet Rep : If you could sign here, sir?

  Guillermo Pallomari : Me? Okay.

  Javier Peña : Yeah. You have to pay for the plane. Whatever you have on you.

  Guillermo Pallomari : I don't carry that kind of cash.

  [pulls out his wallet] 

  Javier Peña : [grabs Pallomari's and hands it over]  It's just a technicality. So that it's not kidnapping.

  Guillermo Pallomari : Just a moment. If it's just a technicality.

  [takes back his cash and then hands the man one small bill] 

  Corporate Jet Rep : Thanks.

• Javier Peña : [narrating]  Chepe Santacruz never did make it back to New York. Without the government's guarantee that their sentences would be minimal, Chepe decided that prison wasn't the best place for him to be. And so he released himself, and set out in search of new alliances with partners who could help him rebuild the empire. You won't believe who he chose.

  Carlos Castaño : [cut to AUC para-military camp]  Don Chepe.

  [Castaño and Chepe share an enthusiastic handshake] 

  Carlos Castaño : I was happy to get your call.

  [Cut to Chepe, now tied up to a gun truck, being beaten up] 

  Javier Peña : [continues narrating]  Predictably, it wasn't much of a partnership. It seems the Castaños expected a larger contribution to their cause...

  [Carlos Castaño suddenly draws a pistol and shoots Chepe several times] 

  Javier Peña : ... than Chepe was comfortable making.

  [At night, a car quickly pulls into a Colombian street. The door opens, and Chepe's corpse slumps to the ground; cut to real-life footage of Chepe's body, surrounded by onlookers] 

  Javier Peña : So the alliance died quickly, and Chepe Santacruz's wild ride came to an end.

  Javier Peña : [Pacho Herrera is seen playing soccer in prison with fellow inmates]  Pacho Herrera didn't fare much better *staying* in jail. Vendettas in the drug game never end. And Pacho's war on the Salazars made him some lifelong North Valley enemies.

  [a North Valley thug draws a revolver and guns down Pacho in front of the latter's boyfriend] 

  Javier Peña : [Cut to the Rodríguez-Orejuela brothers being led to a plane in handcuffs]  And as for the Rodríguez-Orejuela brothers, political pressure from the US and a disgraced Colombian president, who needed to prove he was tough on narcos, brought back the only effective weapon we have in the war on drugs: extradition. All out of favors, and unlikely to find more, they will spend the rest of their lives in a US prison.

  [Gilberto is seen looking ruefully out the window of the plane] 

  Javier Peña : The good guys didn't do much better.

  [newspaper headline: BETRAYAL PAYS] 

  Javier Peña : Back in Colombia, Jorge Salcedo was publicly branded a rat. And in the States, despite testimony that he was instrumental to our efforts to capture and prosecute the Cali godfathers, he still had to plead guilty to felony conspiracy charges. And from there, Jorge Salcedo, the guy who had the most to do with bringing down the Cali cartel, disappeared into the Federal Witness Protection Program somewhere in the US. A prison of its own.

  [Salcedo, now a mechanic, is last seen waiting quietly in a fast-food restaurant] 

• Javier Peña : [narrating]  Another deal. A compromise. A charade. A way for governments who don't give a shit about the war they're supposed to be fighting, to go on pretending they're winning it. But it can't be won. It'll never be won. At least not until people see it for what it is. Not until they know the truth.

• Arthur Crosby : [turning off the news as Peña walks in]  You didn't really call the country that we're guests in a "Narco-Democracy."

  Javier Peña : Are you saying it isn't?

  Arthur Crosby : The State Department's livid.

  Javier Peña : Good. They're responsible. We all are.

• Arthur Crosby : You know any aspirations you had for your career just got dragged behind the barn and shot.

  Javier Peña : I resigned from the DEA this morning...

• Mike Spencer : [looking picture board of DEA agents kill in action]  It all started there. Before him, we didn't even know we were in a war. Another hot one down there for you, huh? You took down the big players in Colombia.

  Javier Peña : Yeah... we'll make new ones.

  Mike Spencer : Don't turn a victory into a defeat, Javier. The Colombian super-cartels are gone. And whoever comes next are gonna be fighting amongst themselves for years. And they're still only going to be a shadow of what Medellin and Cali were. And now it's time to take the fight to the real enemy in The War on Drugs. "Mexico."

  Javier Peña : The real enemy?

  Mike Spencer : Let me put in some calls. I'll make this bullshit resignation go away. What else is a guy like you gonna do?

  [cut to traffickers on the Mexican border]