No Man Left Behind (2016) s01e02 Episode Script
Colombia Vice
1 [LOUD KNOCK.]
MAN: OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR! THERE, LOOK! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: COLOMBIA WAS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS PLACE.
IT WAS THE YEAR OF THE COCAINE COWBOYS.
REPORTER: THERE'S BARELY A DENT IN THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR FLOW OF COCAINE INTO THE UNITED STATES.
THERE'S A KILLING EVERY THREE HOURS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, WOULD CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER.
I'M AMERICAN.
[INAUDIBLE.]
KELLEY, KELLEY.
THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US.
MY PARTNER HAD DEPENDED ON ME.
I FELT TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEMISE.
1982, I WAS WOUNDED WHILE SERVING MY COUNTRY.
I WAS SHOT IN THE HIP BY A DRUG TRAFFICKER IN COLOMBIA.
30 YEARS LATER HERE I AM STILL DEALING WITH THE EFFECTS OF THOSE INJURIES.
IN THE EARLY 1980'S, YEAH, I CONSIDERED MYSELF A TOUGH GUY, ABLE TO SURVIVE.
I WAS MARRIED, HAD TWO CHILDREN.
I WAS LIVING IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
I WAS PRIMARILY WORKING ON INVESTIGATIONS THAT INVOLVED SMUGGLING OUT OF SOUTH AMERICA, IN TO SOUTH FLORIDA.
AND IN LATE JANUARY 1982, I RECEIVED A TELETYPE SAYING I'D BEEN ASSIGNED TO SUPPORT OPERATION TIBURON OUT OF CARTAGENA, COLUMBIA.
I'M FEELING APPREHENSIVE, WE'D HAD MANY AGENTS KILLED.
THAT I KNEW, MY FRIENDS.
IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO TRAVEL UNARMED.
I REQUESTED AUTHORIZATION FOR US TO CARRY OUR WEAPONS.
HEY, IT'S MARTINEZ FROM THE MIAMI OFFICE.
I JUST GOT WORD BACK FROM BOGATA.
PERMISSION TO TAKE FIREARMS INTO CARTAGENA DENIED.
MAN: IT'S COME FROM HEAD OFFICE, CHARLIE.
IT'S OUT OF MY HANDS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BU SURELY I SHOULD BE MAN: THE DECISION'S FINAL.
I'M SORRY, HAVE A GOOD TRIP.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: OKAY.
I WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.
THEY WERE DENYING ME THE ABILITY TO DEFEND MYSELF, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO ABOUT IT.
ALRIGHT, SEE YOU GUYS.
I WAS ASSIGNED A PARTNER, HIS NAME WAS KELLEY MCCULLOUGH.
I SEE THIS MAN GETTING OUT OF THE CAR.
JEANS, COWBOY BOOTS.
AND I SAID, "YEP, WE GOT A TRUE TEXAN HERE".
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I WAS VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT BEING ASSIGNED, TEMPORARY, TO COLOMBIA BECAUSE THATS WHERE THINGS WERE HAPPENING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: KELLEY? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO GE ALONG WITH SOMEBODY BECAUSE YOU KNOW, ON A DAILY BASIS WE WERE PUTTING OUR LIVES ON THE LINE.
GOOD TO MEET YOU.
SO, YOU HAD TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR PARTNER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: YOU KNOW I DON'T SPEAK ANY SPANISH.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DON'T WORRY, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DON' THINK IT EVER CROSS MY MIND THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WE WERE ABOUT TO ENCOUNTER THERE IN COLOMBIA.
WE LANDED IN COLOMBIA.
CARTAGENA IS BASICALLY A TOURIST TOWN AND WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING SOME DOWN TIME AND LOOKING FORWARD SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT CARTAGENA HAD TO OFFER.
BUENOS DÃAS.
WOMAN: BUENOS DIAS.
WELCOME TO THE DON BLAS, SEÃOR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: FIRS IMPRESSIONS WAS IT WAS A VERY NICE HOTEL.
WOMAN: PASSPORT, PLEASE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE CHECKED IN.
WE IDENTIFIED OURSELVES AS EMBASSY PERSONNEL.
WE DID NOT IDENTIFY OURSELVES AS DEA AGENTS.
WOMAN: YOUR PASSPORT, PLEASE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE SAID WERE WE ASSIGNED TO THE U.
S.
EMBASSY, WE WERE THERE ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
AND THEREFORE WE WERE USING OUR OFFICIAL PASSPORTS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: THAT WASN'T VERY SMART, WE WERE IN ENEMY TERRITORY AND DIDN'T ACT LIKE IT.
WE HAD A SUITE AND I HAD TWO DOORS TO IT.
ONE DOOR WAS 1802.
ONE DOOR WAS 1803.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHERE'S THE MINI BAR? CHEERS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHEERS.
WE WERE ACTUALLY FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT .
WE'VE GOT A GOOD ASSIGNMENT HERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE NEX DAY WE WENT OUT TO THE AIRPOR TO START OUR MISSIONS.
OUR FUNCTION IN OPERATION TIBURON WAS TO FLY THE COASTLINE, THE NORTH COAST OF COLOMBIA.
ALRIGHT, CAMERA OUT.
HERE WE GO.
IDENTIFY THE SHIPS THAT WERE BEING LOADED WITH NARCOTICS ALRIGHT, NICE, LETS HAVE ANOTHER LOOK SHALL WE? WE WERE WORKING IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
WE WERE GOING IN THEIR HOME TURF AND INTERFERING WITH THEIR BUSINESS.
AND IT WAS A VERY DANGEROUS, VERY DANGEROUS POSITION TO BE IN.
WHEN WE GOT BACK ON THE GROUND WE RECEIVED A MESSAGE.
MAN: CHARLIE MARTINEZ? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH.
FROM THE BOGATA OFFICE.
THANK YOU.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT'S THAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
BOGATA OFFICE ASKED US TO CONTACT THEM VIA TELEPHONE.
LET'S GIVE THEM A CALL.
WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS ABOUT.
MAN: YOU UNDERSTAND? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH.
MAN: LET ME KNOW HOW IT GOES.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH, SURE, BYE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT'S UP? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEY THINK THERE IS A DRUG TRAFFICKER STAYING IN OUR HOTEL.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HIS NAME IS RENE BENITEZ.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: NEVER HEARD OF HIM.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: RENE BENITEZ WAS A FUGITIVE FROM A COCAINE ARREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEY ASKED THAT WE CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS STAYING AT THE HOTEL.
I HAD NO CLUE WHAT, RENE BENITEZ LOOKED LIKE, AND I SAID, I'M GONNA GO DOWN TO THE MANAGER IN HIS OFFICE AND SEE IF THEY CAN CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT HE'S A GUEST HERE.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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I BELIEVE HIS NAME WAS LAZARUS.
LAZARUS: SEÃOR, HOW CAN I HELP YOU? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: CAN YOU CONFIRM IF YOU HAVE A GUES STAYING HERE, FOR ME? HIS NAME IS RENE BENITEZ.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
LAZARUS: LET ME WRITE DOWN THAT NAME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: RENE BENITEZ.
I DIDN'T TELL HIM THAT HE WAS A FUGITIVE OR THAT WE WERE GOING TO ARREST HIM.
LAZARUS: OKAY, CAN I GET BACK YOU ABOUT THIS MAYBE TOMORROW EVENING? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: SURE, NO PROBLEM.
TOMORROW EVENING.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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HE NEVER GAVE A REASON WHY HE WASN'T ABLE TO DO I IMMEDIATELY, AND I DIDN' PUSH IT BECAUSE HE WAS DOING US A FAVOR.
THE FOLLOWING EVENING, I TOLD KELLEY, I'M GONNA GO DOWNSTAIRS, SEE IF WE GOT THAT INFORMATION.
I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO SEÃOR LAZARUS.
WOMAN: SEÃOR LAZARUS IS NOT HERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DO YOU HAVE ANY MESSAGES FROM HIM? WOMAN: LIKE I SAID HE'S NOT HERE.
EXCUSE ME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BUT THERE WAS NO MESSAGES LEFT FOR ME, NO INFORMATION LEFT FOR ME.
AND AT THAT POINT I STARTED TO GET A LITTLE, A LITTLE CONCERNED BECAUSE THEY HAD, THEY HAD APPEARED TO BE COOPERATIVE, BUT NOW I WAS FEELING THA THEY WERE BEING EVASIVE.
THINGS WEREN'T ADDING UP.
THIS ISN'T RIGHT, MAN.
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE THAT'S OU OF THE ORDINARY.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE WAS GETTING IMPATIENT AND CONCERNED, AND BEGINNING TO, TO QUESTION WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: FIRS THING IN THE MORNING WE BE READY TO MOVE.
KNOWING WHAT I KNOW NOW, WE SHOULD HAVE CHECKED-OU THAT NIGHT.
[LOUD KNOCK.]
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ABOU ONE O'CLOCK I HEAR A LOUD POUNDING, LIKE ALMOS KICKING ON CHARLIE'S DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AS SOON AS I OPENED MY EYES, KELLEY WAS STANDING THERE.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
[LOUD KNOCK.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHO IS IT? IT WAS GETTING MORE AGGRESSIVE.
EVERY TIME THEY KNOCKED THEY WERE GETTING MORE INSISTENT.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
WE NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WHAT DO YOU WANT? WE'RE NOT GOING TO WE'RE NOT GOING TO TALK TO YOU TONIGHT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON BUT IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE.
JOSE DUARTE: WE ARE THE POLICE AND WE NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAYS HE'S THE COPS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: FIRS THING THAT ENTERED MY MIND WAS IF THERE WAS A POLICEMAN OUT THERE, IT WASN'T A GOOD POLICEMAN.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I SAID, "DO YOU HAVE ANY ID?" KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: IT WAS AN ID FOR A COLOMBIAN FEDERAL POLICEMAN.
THE NAME ON I WAS JOSE DUARTE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: ARE THEY ACTUALLY POLICE OFFICERS? WE'RE GOING TO LOOK OUTSIDE, SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: YEAH.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AT THAT POINT, I DECIDED I NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.
I JUST BARELY CRACKED THE DOOR.
SIX GUYS, THEY EACH HAD HAND GUNS, STACKED UP AT THE DOOR AS THOUGH THEY WERE GETTING READY TO PUSH THROUGH THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
MAN: THERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND THEY SAW ME LOOKING AT THEM.
I KNEW WE WERE IN TROUBLE, SERIOUS TROUBLE, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH.
REPORTER: THIS IS THE MOST VIOLENT OF CITIES.
THERE'S A KILLING EVERY THREE HOURS.
MAN: THERE, LOOK.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE SLAMS THE DOOR CLOSED SUDDENLY, AND HE TELLS ME THERE ARE SOME MEN IN THE HALLWAY WITH GUNS.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR OR WE'LL KICK IT DOWN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WE HAD NO EXIT EXCEPT OFF AN 18 STORY BALCONY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE DIDN' HAVE ENOUGH SHEETS ON THE BED TO MAKE IT 18 FLOORS.
I DON'T SEE ANY WAY OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: THERE WASN'T REALLY ANY OTHER OPTION.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WITH A LOT OF APPREHENSION AND FEAR, I OPENED THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: HANDS UP.
COME ON, COME ON! INTO THE ROOM.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ONE OF THEM IMMEDIATELY TOOK CHARLIE INTO CHARLIE'S BEDROOM AND CLOSED THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I'M BEING INTERROGATED BY THIS MAN, HE'S ASKING ME WHO I AM, WHAT AM I DOING THERE, WHO DO I WORK FOR? THIS OTHER MAN, HE'S GOT A BERETTA.
RENE BENITEZ: I AM RENE BENITEZ.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I AM RENE BENITEZ WHY ARE YOU ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT ME? RENE BENITEZ: WHO ARE YOU? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I WAS CONCERNED THAT THEY WERE TORTURING HIM OR BEATING HIM, TRYING TO GET INFORMATION OU OF HIM.
THEY SAID I NEEDED TO GET DRESSED.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AT THA POINT WHAT WAS PARAMOUNT IN MY MIND WAS HOW ARE WE GONNA GET OUT OF HERE? WHAT'S MY OPTIONS? I NEED TO CALL THE EMBASSY.
RENE BENITEZ: THERE IS ONLY ONE LAW IN COLOMBIA, IDIOT.
LET'S GO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
I THOUGHT AT THE VERY LEAS WE WERE IN FOR A GOOD BEATING.
THAT'S WHEN I SAW LAZARUS, THE HOTEL MANAGER.
HE WAS OBVIOUSLY NO THERE ON HIS OWN WILL.
RENE BENITEZ: WAS I THEM, WAS IT THEM? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE LOOKS A ME AND HE SHAKES HIS HEAD NO.
SO HE WAS TRYING TO DO THE BEST HE COULD TO SAVE US I GUESS.
THEY PULLED HIM BACK INTO THE STAIRWELL, WE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.
MY MIND IS RACING.
I'M LOOKING FOR SOME AVENUE OF ESCAPE.
I'M AMERICAN.
I'VE BEEN TAKEN AGAINST MY WILL.
IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD AT THAT POINT.
WE START DRIVING THROUGH TOWN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, ASK THEM WHERE WE'RE GOING? [SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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JOSE DUARTE: CALM DOWN.
WE'RE GOING THIS WAY TOWARDS THE POLICE STATION.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAID WE WERE GOING TO THE POLICE.
RENE BENITEZ: WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BENITEZ HAS A BERRETTA WITH THE HAMMER STILL COCKED, AIMED AT ME.
RENE BENITEZ: YOU GRINGO'S ARE CRAZY, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? YOU COME INTO MY COUNTRY AND MESS WITH MY BUSINESS FORGET ABOUT IT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE HAS HIS FINGER ON THE TRIGGER ALL THIS TIME YOU KNOW, ALL IT WOULD TAKE IS JUST A FLINCH A LITTLE BIT.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE GUN, YOU KNOW, COULD EASILY GO OFF WITH A BUMP IN THE ROAD.
RENE BENITEZ: YOU'RE MAKING ME ANGRY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: STOP SHOUTING AT ME.
RENE BENITEZ: "STOP SHOUTING AT ME, STOP SHOUTING AT ME.
" KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE AND BENITEZ WERE ARGUING AND HOLLERING AT EACH OTHER.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I AM NOT GOING TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS.
I EVENTUALLY TELL HIM, I SAID, YOU KNOW, SCREW YOU, TAKE A HIKE.
THERE WAS THIS BLINDING FLASH AND A BANG.
YEAH, HE SHOT ME.
AND HE'D SHOT ME IN THE HIP.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH, HE SHOT ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: 30 YEARS AGO I WAS SHOT IN THE HIP BY A DRUG TRAFFICKER.
TO THIS DAY I'M STILL DEALING WITH WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN COLOMBIA.
BECAUSE OF WHA HAPPENED I AM NOW IN NEED OF A HIP REPLACEMENT.
THAT MISSION CHANGED MY LIFE.
IT'LL BE SOMETHING I'LL NEVER FORGET.
THE IMPACT OF THE BULLET ROLLS ME A LITTLE BIT TO THE LEFT.
MY LEGS HIT THE GEAR SHIF SELECTOR ON THE HUMP AND KNOCKED THE CAR OUT OF GEAR.
JOSE DUARTE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: DUARTE HOLLERS AT BENITEZ, HE CAN'T GET THE CAR INTO GEAR, IT'S TOTAL CHAOS.
JOSE DUARTE: ARE YOU CRAZY? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE'S CRAZY, MAN.
JOSE DUARTE: YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I IMMEDIATELY BECAME CONCERNED ABOUT THE BLOOD.
AND I LOOKED DOWN AND MY PANTS WERE ALREADY SOAKED.
RENE BENITEZ: WHAT'S UP MAN, WHAT'S GOING ON? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE ONLY THING I COULD DO AT THAT TIME WAS APPLY PRESSURE TO WHERE THERE WAS THE MOST BLOOD.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DUARTE GETS THE CAR BACK IN GEAR.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WE NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
WE NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
RENE BENITEZ: NOBODY'S GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: SUDDENLY I SEE A NEON SIGN.
HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAID WE JUST PASSED IT AND THAT WAS NOT GOOD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHERE ARE WE GOING, MAN? WHERE ARE WE GOING? JOSE DUARTE: LOOK, THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE! KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: AFTER WE GOT OUT OF CARTAGENA, THEN IT DAWNED ON ME, WE WERE NOT GONNA BE GOING TO ANY HOSPITAL OR ANY POLICE STATION.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE'S GOING TO BLEED OUT.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE WERE IN DEEP STUFF THEN.
WE WERE IN DEEP TROUBLE.
WE PULLED OFF ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
THE CAR STOPPED.
BUT THE ENGINE WAS STILL RUNNING.
DUARTE GET'S OUT OF THE CAR.
BENITEZ GETS OUT OF THE CAR.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ARE YOU OKAY? JOSE DUARTE: THERE'S BLOOD ON THE SEATS IN STAINS.
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, THAT'S EVIDENCE? RENE BENITEZ: SO, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO KILL THEM? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEY'RE TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WANT TO SHOOT US IN THE CAR OR OUT OF THE CAR.
THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I'M LISTENING TO ALL THIS AND I'M ACTUALLY STARING AT THE ACCELERATOR THINKING IF I CAN JUST HIT THAT ACCELERATOR THAT'S GONNA PUT SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND THE DANGER.
I CAN'T MOVE THIS THING.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I'M THINKING, IF I'M GOING TO BE KILLED I DON'T WANT TO BE KILLED SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR.
I WAS GOING TO MAKE THEM WORK FOR IT.
I FINALLY AM ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE CAR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I SEE BENITEZ.
NO, NO, NO.
NO, NO.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: AND I JUST STARTED RUNNING.
[GUNSHOT.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE ROUND ENTERS MY RIGHT SHOULDER AND EXITS ON THE TOP OF THE SHOULDER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I KNEW WHEN I STARTED RUNNING THAT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING I COULD DO TO HELP CHARLIE.
[GUNSHOT.]
DUARTE'S NEXT SHO HITS MY RIGHT BUTTOCK.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
NO, NO, NO.
BENITEZ, HE'S STANDING THERE.
THE GUN AT MY HEAD, THE HAMMER COCKED, HE PULLS THE TRIGGER.
[CLICKING.]
AND AT THAT MOMENT, I REALIZED THAT WAS MY OPPORTUNITY.
WE START THROWING PUNCHES.
HE CATCHES ME AND WITH THAT MOMENTUM, I KEEP GOING.
RENE BENITEZ: VALENCIA, VALENCIA.
FIND HIM.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: NOW I'M IN ESCAPE AND EVADE MODE.
THE LAST RECOLLECTION I HAVE OF KELLEY WAS IN THE BACK SEAT.
AFTER THAT I LOST TRACK OF HIM.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE DID.
[PAINFUL GRUNTING.]
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: POR FAVOR! DUARTE'S STANDING RIGHT OVER ME.
[GUNSHOT.]
AND THE BULLET ENTERS THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY NECK AND COMES OUT MY LEFT ARMPIT.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS PROBABLY RESIGNED TO MY FATE.
[GUNSHOT.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SHOT ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE LAS RECOLLECTION I HAVE OF KELLEY WAS IN THE BACK SEAT.
AFTER THAT I LOST TRACK OF HIM.
[DISTANT GUNSHOT.]
I HEAR THIS LOUD GUN SHOT.
I COULD HEAR VOICES AND I DECIDED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE 'CAUSE KELLEY'S DEAD AND THEY'RE COMING AFTER ME.
I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO FEEL BAD OR ACCOUNTABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR KELLEY AT THAT MOMENT.
AT THAT MOMENT I WAS JUST THINKING I NEED TO "GET OUT OF DODGE.
" AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TO THINK, OKAY, WHAT DO I DO NOW? THEY'RE COMING AFTER ME.
HOW AM I GONNA GET AWAY? SO I BACKED TRACKED, LAY FLAT ON THE GROUND.
I COVERED MYSELF UP WITH LEAVES AND DIRT THE BEST I COULD.
AND I JUST LAID THERE.
I'M LISTENING FOR THEM.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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THEN I HEAR THEM TALKING TO EACH OTHER.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I WAS STAYING PERFECTLY STILL.
I DIDN'T EVEN WAN TO MOVE MY HEAD.
I'M LAYING THERE AND I FEEL THIS WARM FEELING STARTS IN MY SPINE.
AND IT GOES UP MY BACK AND THEN IT SPREADS.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BECOMES A BURNING STINGING SENSATION.
THERE WAS A COLONY OF, OF FIRE ANTS.
I COULDN'T MOVE AT THAT POIN 'CAUSE THEY WERE COMING BACK.
I HEAR THEM GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER.
AND THEY JUST KEP WALKING RIGHT PAST ME.
I'M OUT HERE BY MYSELF, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED, THE CAVALRY IS NO GOING TO ARRIVE.
IT'S UP TO ME TO SURVIVE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I LOOKED UP, LOOKED AROUND.
I WAS WAITING FOR THE FINAL BULLET THE COUP DE GRACE.
BUT IT DIDN'T COME.
DUARTE WAS GONE.
JUST A MIRACLE.
DAMN MIRACLE.
SO I TOOK OFF RUNNING.
THE ONLY THING I WANTED TO DO WAS TO GET AWAY FROM THOSE BAD GUYS AND GO AND GET HELP FOR CHARLIE.
I SAW A STEEPLE OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH.
THAT WAS MY BES HOPE AT THAT POINT.
HELLO, HELLO? PRIEST: YES? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HELLO FATHER.
SO I EXPLAINED TO HIM THE BES I COULD AND THAT MY PARTNER WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED OR DEAD.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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I NEEDED TO GET A POLICEMAN AND A DOCTOR AND GO BACK OU TO SEE IF I COULD HELP HIM, AND SO, THE PRIEST SAID OK, HE GOT HIS LITTLE CAR OUT OF THE GARAGE.
FOUR OF US IN THE CAR AND WE GO BACK OUT AND FIND CHARLIE.
I DON'T REMEMBER HOW I KNEW WHERE TO GO BACK TO, BUT I GOT THEM TO APPROXIMATELY THE RIGHT PLACE.
DOWN HERE, I LAST SAW HIM.
CHARLIE! CHARLIE, CHARLIE, CHARLIE, CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: MY HIP NOW IS STILL THROBBING, IT'S STARTING TO BLEED AGAIN.
I WAS GETTING TIRED, I WAS COLD AND NO DOUBT I WAS GETTING WEAKER AND WEAKER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I HEAR KELLEY'S VOICE AND HE'S CALLING OUT MY NAME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I KNEW IT WAS HIM.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: COME ON, CHARLIE, CHARLIE! CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND I'M THINKING MAN, HE'S NOT DEAD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I REALLY WANTED TO CRY OUT AND SAY, "HERE I AM," YOU KNOW, "I NEED YOUR HELP," KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ:BU THEN IMMEDIATELY I SAID, "WELL IF HE'S NO DEAD HE SHOULD BE DEAD" AND I'M THINKING THEY PROBABLY HAVE TORTURED HIM AND ARE USING HIM TO SMOKE ME OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE! CHARLIE, WHERE ARE YOU, MAN? I COULD NO BELIEVE MY EYES.
BENITEZ COMING OUT OF THE DARK, COMING RIGH TOWARD ME WITH A GUN.
I'M THINKING THIS AIN'T GOOD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, CHARLIE, GOD DAMN IT.
OFFICER: CHARLIE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
I SAW BENITEZ COMING RIGHT TOWARDS ME WITH A GUN.
OFFICER: CALM DOWN.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? CALM DOWN.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I COULD HEAR YELLING.
OFFICER: EASY, EASY.
RUN, RUN.
[GUNSHOT.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I HEAR BANG.
I IMMEDIATELY THOUGH OH, KELLEY'S DEAD NOW, I'M ON MY OWN.
AND I FIGURED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE HOT ON MY TRAIL VERY SHORTLY.
I HAD TO KEEP MOVING.
NOW IT'S LIKE 2:30 IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS JUST BREAKING DAWN.
I MADE MY WAY BACK TO THE HIGHWAY.
HELP, HELP, HELP.
STOP! NONE OF THE DRIVERS WANT TO STOP.
I TRIED SEVERAL TIMES.
AND FINALLY I SAW A CAB PLEASE, PLEASE! AND HE STOPPED AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, PLEASE JUST STAY THERE.
PLEASE.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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THERE'S THIS, LIKE, 18 YEAR OLD KID AND I DIDN'T WANT TO TELL HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED FOR FEAR THAT HE'D JUST GE SCARED AND TAKE OFF.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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SO I TOLD HIM I WAS INVOLVED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.
I NEED TO GET TO CARTEGENA.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
HE SAID, "WELL JUMP IN, I'LL TAKE YOU TO CARTAGENA.
" HE SAVED ME OUT THERE.
HE SAID, "WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?" AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, I SURE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING WITH THE POLICE, I DIDN'T THINK THA WAS A GOOD CHOICE, CONSIDERING THE FAC THAT SOME POLICE OFFICERS HAD JUST TRIED TO KILL US.
SO WHAT CAME TO MIND WAS THE COLUMBIAN NAVY AND THEY HAD A BASE THERE IN CARTAGENA.
AND THEY HAD A REPUTATION FOR BEING THE LEAST CORRUPT ORGANIZATION.
I STEPPED OUT AND I WALKED UP TO THE GUARD WHO WAS EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS OF ME, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT I LOOKED LIKE.
I'M AN AMERICAN.
I'M AN AMERICAN, PLEASE HELP ME.
I NEED HELP.
ONCE THEY DETERMINED THAT I WAS IN FACT WHO I SAID I WAS, THEY THEN TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL.
I STARTED TO SEE POLICE ARRIVE.
I WAS REALLY, REALLY NERVOUS THERE 'CAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHO THEY WERE.
WERE THEY TRUSTWORTHY? I WAS VERY VERY SUSPICIOUS OF ALL POLICE OFFICERS.
THEY WERE ABOUT READY TO WHEEL ME INTO SURGERY BUT I DID NOT FEEL SAFE.
AND ALL THIS TIME I HAD THIS REALLY TERRIBLE GUILTY FEELING.
I THOUGHT THA KELLEY WAS GONE, DEAD, AND HIS WIFE WAS GOING TO BE A WIDOW.
NOT A GOOD FEELING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HELP, HELP! [GUNSHOT.]
30 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS SHO THE BULLET HIT THE EDGE OF THE SOCKET THAT HOLDS THE TOP OF THE FEMUR.
THE ONLY WAY TO RESOLVE THA IS TO REMOVE THE DAMAGED PARTS AND REPLACE THE HIP.
THE HIP OPERATION WILL CLOSE A CHAPTER AND OPEN A NEW ONE.
IN THE AGENCY WE HAD THIS UNSPOKEN ARRANGEMENT, YOUR PARTNER DEPENDED ON YOU AND YOU DEPENDED ON YOUR PARTNER.
WHEN I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, IT WAS JUST AN OVERWHELMING GUILT FEELING.
I THOUGHT THA KELLEY WAS GONE, THAT HE WAS DEAD.
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO SOMETHING TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE AND I FAILED.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: IT'S BEEN THIRTY YEARS NOW SINCE IT HAPPENED.
IT'S STILL VERY VIVID.
IT'LL BE VERY GOOD TO SEE MY OLD PARTNER AGAIN.
I'M SURE HE'S GOT OLD AND GREY AND UGLY BY NOW.
OLA, AMIGO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE HIM COME IN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HEY PARTNER.
WE GOT TO QUI MEETING LIKE THIS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS MY THOUGHT EXACTLY.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DID SAY IT WOULD BE INTERESTING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YOU DID SAY THAT.
IT WAS LIKE SOMEBODY TOOK A 10,000 POUND WEIGH OFF MY SHOULDER.
IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF, AND THEN HE EXPLAINED TO ME WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
[GUNSHOTS.]
KELLEY HAD BEEN SHO TWO OR THREE TIMES.
I THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED, BUT HE FOUND A WAY TO ESCAPE.
HE FINDS A PRIEST, A DOCTOR AND A POLICE OFFICER.
HE COMES BACK LOOKING FOR ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? AS HE WAS CALLING MY NAME, HE RAN INTO BENITEZ AGAIN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
AND I'M THINKING I CAN'T BE HAPPENING AGAIN.
THE POLICEMAN JUS GRABBED HIS ARM.
OFFICER: EASY, EASY.
RUN, RUN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I TAKE OFF RUNNING REAL FAST.
YEAH, HE PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR ME, HE REALLY DID.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I WAS AN AMAZING STORY.
YOU KNOW IT JUST SPEAKS VOLUMES AS TO THE TYPE OF MAN HE IS.
NEITHER ONE OF US FELT LIKE HEROES, WE JUST FELT LIKE WE DID WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO.
WHEN YOU CONFRONT THOSE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS AND YOU SURVIVE THERE'S BONDS THAT ARE CREATED THAT ARE LIKE NO OTHER BONDS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I LIKE YOUR TOGA.
THAT'S PRETTY, YOU'RE ALWAYS DRESSED PRETTY SPIFFY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND GOOD FRIENDS AND A COLD BEER MEAN A LOT MORE NOW THAN THEY USED TO.
I DON'T TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED.
MAN: OPEN THE DOOR, OPEN THE DOOR! THERE, LOOK! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: COLOMBIA WAS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS PLACE.
IT WAS THE YEAR OF THE COCAINE COWBOYS.
REPORTER: THERE'S BARELY A DENT IN THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR FLOW OF COCAINE INTO THE UNITED STATES.
THERE'S A KILLING EVERY THREE HOURS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, WOULD CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER.
I'M AMERICAN.
[INAUDIBLE.]
KELLEY, KELLEY.
THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US.
MY PARTNER HAD DEPENDED ON ME.
I FELT TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEMISE.
1982, I WAS WOUNDED WHILE SERVING MY COUNTRY.
I WAS SHOT IN THE HIP BY A DRUG TRAFFICKER IN COLOMBIA.
30 YEARS LATER HERE I AM STILL DEALING WITH THE EFFECTS OF THOSE INJURIES.
IN THE EARLY 1980'S, YEAH, I CONSIDERED MYSELF A TOUGH GUY, ABLE TO SURVIVE.
I WAS MARRIED, HAD TWO CHILDREN.
I WAS LIVING IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
I WAS PRIMARILY WORKING ON INVESTIGATIONS THAT INVOLVED SMUGGLING OUT OF SOUTH AMERICA, IN TO SOUTH FLORIDA.
AND IN LATE JANUARY 1982, I RECEIVED A TELETYPE SAYING I'D BEEN ASSIGNED TO SUPPORT OPERATION TIBURON OUT OF CARTAGENA, COLUMBIA.
I'M FEELING APPREHENSIVE, WE'D HAD MANY AGENTS KILLED.
THAT I KNEW, MY FRIENDS.
IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO TRAVEL UNARMED.
I REQUESTED AUTHORIZATION FOR US TO CARRY OUR WEAPONS.
HEY, IT'S MARTINEZ FROM THE MIAMI OFFICE.
I JUST GOT WORD BACK FROM BOGATA.
PERMISSION TO TAKE FIREARMS INTO CARTAGENA DENIED.
MAN: IT'S COME FROM HEAD OFFICE, CHARLIE.
IT'S OUT OF MY HANDS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BU SURELY I SHOULD BE MAN: THE DECISION'S FINAL.
I'M SORRY, HAVE A GOOD TRIP.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: OKAY.
I WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.
THEY WERE DENYING ME THE ABILITY TO DEFEND MYSELF, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO ABOUT IT.
ALRIGHT, SEE YOU GUYS.
I WAS ASSIGNED A PARTNER, HIS NAME WAS KELLEY MCCULLOUGH.
I SEE THIS MAN GETTING OUT OF THE CAR.
JEANS, COWBOY BOOTS.
AND I SAID, "YEP, WE GOT A TRUE TEXAN HERE".
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I WAS VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT BEING ASSIGNED, TEMPORARY, TO COLOMBIA BECAUSE THATS WHERE THINGS WERE HAPPENING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: KELLEY? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO GE ALONG WITH SOMEBODY BECAUSE YOU KNOW, ON A DAILY BASIS WE WERE PUTTING OUR LIVES ON THE LINE.
GOOD TO MEET YOU.
SO, YOU HAD TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR PARTNER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: YOU KNOW I DON'T SPEAK ANY SPANISH.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DON'T WORRY, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DON' THINK IT EVER CROSS MY MIND THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WE WERE ABOUT TO ENCOUNTER THERE IN COLOMBIA.
WE LANDED IN COLOMBIA.
CARTAGENA IS BASICALLY A TOURIST TOWN AND WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING SOME DOWN TIME AND LOOKING FORWARD SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT CARTAGENA HAD TO OFFER.
BUENOS DÃAS.
WOMAN: BUENOS DIAS.
WELCOME TO THE DON BLAS, SEÃOR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: FIRS IMPRESSIONS WAS IT WAS A VERY NICE HOTEL.
WOMAN: PASSPORT, PLEASE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE CHECKED IN.
WE IDENTIFIED OURSELVES AS EMBASSY PERSONNEL.
WE DID NOT IDENTIFY OURSELVES AS DEA AGENTS.
WOMAN: YOUR PASSPORT, PLEASE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE SAID WERE WE ASSIGNED TO THE U.
S.
EMBASSY, WE WERE THERE ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
AND THEREFORE WE WERE USING OUR OFFICIAL PASSPORTS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: THAT WASN'T VERY SMART, WE WERE IN ENEMY TERRITORY AND DIDN'T ACT LIKE IT.
WE HAD A SUITE AND I HAD TWO DOORS TO IT.
ONE DOOR WAS 1802.
ONE DOOR WAS 1803.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHERE'S THE MINI BAR? CHEERS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHEERS.
WE WERE ACTUALLY FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT .
WE'VE GOT A GOOD ASSIGNMENT HERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE NEX DAY WE WENT OUT TO THE AIRPOR TO START OUR MISSIONS.
OUR FUNCTION IN OPERATION TIBURON WAS TO FLY THE COASTLINE, THE NORTH COAST OF COLOMBIA.
ALRIGHT, CAMERA OUT.
HERE WE GO.
IDENTIFY THE SHIPS THAT WERE BEING LOADED WITH NARCOTICS ALRIGHT, NICE, LETS HAVE ANOTHER LOOK SHALL WE? WE WERE WORKING IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
WE WERE GOING IN THEIR HOME TURF AND INTERFERING WITH THEIR BUSINESS.
AND IT WAS A VERY DANGEROUS, VERY DANGEROUS POSITION TO BE IN.
WHEN WE GOT BACK ON THE GROUND WE RECEIVED A MESSAGE.
MAN: CHARLIE MARTINEZ? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH.
FROM THE BOGATA OFFICE.
THANK YOU.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT'S THAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
BOGATA OFFICE ASKED US TO CONTACT THEM VIA TELEPHONE.
LET'S GIVE THEM A CALL.
WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS ABOUT.
MAN: YOU UNDERSTAND? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH.
MAN: LET ME KNOW HOW IT GOES.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH, SURE, BYE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT'S UP? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEY THINK THERE IS A DRUG TRAFFICKER STAYING IN OUR HOTEL.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HIS NAME IS RENE BENITEZ.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: NEVER HEARD OF HIM.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: RENE BENITEZ WAS A FUGITIVE FROM A COCAINE ARREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEY ASKED THAT WE CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS STAYING AT THE HOTEL.
I HAD NO CLUE WHAT, RENE BENITEZ LOOKED LIKE, AND I SAID, I'M GONNA GO DOWN TO THE MANAGER IN HIS OFFICE AND SEE IF THEY CAN CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT HE'S A GUEST HERE.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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I BELIEVE HIS NAME WAS LAZARUS.
LAZARUS: SEÃOR, HOW CAN I HELP YOU? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: CAN YOU CONFIRM IF YOU HAVE A GUES STAYING HERE, FOR ME? HIS NAME IS RENE BENITEZ.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
LAZARUS: LET ME WRITE DOWN THAT NAME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: RENE BENITEZ.
I DIDN'T TELL HIM THAT HE WAS A FUGITIVE OR THAT WE WERE GOING TO ARREST HIM.
LAZARUS: OKAY, CAN I GET BACK YOU ABOUT THIS MAYBE TOMORROW EVENING? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: SURE, NO PROBLEM.
TOMORROW EVENING.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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HE NEVER GAVE A REASON WHY HE WASN'T ABLE TO DO I IMMEDIATELY, AND I DIDN' PUSH IT BECAUSE HE WAS DOING US A FAVOR.
THE FOLLOWING EVENING, I TOLD KELLEY, I'M GONNA GO DOWNSTAIRS, SEE IF WE GOT THAT INFORMATION.
I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO SEÃOR LAZARUS.
WOMAN: SEÃOR LAZARUS IS NOT HERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DO YOU HAVE ANY MESSAGES FROM HIM? WOMAN: LIKE I SAID HE'S NOT HERE.
EXCUSE ME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BUT THERE WAS NO MESSAGES LEFT FOR ME, NO INFORMATION LEFT FOR ME.
AND AT THAT POINT I STARTED TO GET A LITTLE, A LITTLE CONCERNED BECAUSE THEY HAD, THEY HAD APPEARED TO BE COOPERATIVE, BUT NOW I WAS FEELING THA THEY WERE BEING EVASIVE.
THINGS WEREN'T ADDING UP.
THIS ISN'T RIGHT, MAN.
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE THAT'S OU OF THE ORDINARY.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE WAS GETTING IMPATIENT AND CONCERNED, AND BEGINNING TO, TO QUESTION WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: FIRS THING IN THE MORNING WE BE READY TO MOVE.
KNOWING WHAT I KNOW NOW, WE SHOULD HAVE CHECKED-OU THAT NIGHT.
[LOUD KNOCK.]
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ABOU ONE O'CLOCK I HEAR A LOUD POUNDING, LIKE ALMOS KICKING ON CHARLIE'S DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AS SOON AS I OPENED MY EYES, KELLEY WAS STANDING THERE.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
[LOUD KNOCK.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WHO IS IT? IT WAS GETTING MORE AGGRESSIVE.
EVERY TIME THEY KNOCKED THEY WERE GETTING MORE INSISTENT.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
WE NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WHAT DO YOU WANT? WE'RE NOT GOING TO WE'RE NOT GOING TO TALK TO YOU TONIGHT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON BUT IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE.
JOSE DUARTE: WE ARE THE POLICE AND WE NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAYS HE'S THE COPS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: FIRS THING THAT ENTERED MY MIND WAS IF THERE WAS A POLICEMAN OUT THERE, IT WASN'T A GOOD POLICEMAN.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I SAID, "DO YOU HAVE ANY ID?" KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: IT WAS AN ID FOR A COLOMBIAN FEDERAL POLICEMAN.
THE NAME ON I WAS JOSE DUARTE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: ARE THEY ACTUALLY POLICE OFFICERS? WE'RE GOING TO LOOK OUTSIDE, SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: YEAH.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AT THAT POINT, I DECIDED I NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.
I JUST BARELY CRACKED THE DOOR.
SIX GUYS, THEY EACH HAD HAND GUNS, STACKED UP AT THE DOOR AS THOUGH THEY WERE GETTING READY TO PUSH THROUGH THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR.
MAN: THERE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND THEY SAW ME LOOKING AT THEM.
I KNEW WE WERE IN TROUBLE, SERIOUS TROUBLE, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH.
REPORTER: THIS IS THE MOST VIOLENT OF CITIES.
THERE'S A KILLING EVERY THREE HOURS.
MAN: THERE, LOOK.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE SLAMS THE DOOR CLOSED SUDDENLY, AND HE TELLS ME THERE ARE SOME MEN IN THE HALLWAY WITH GUNS.
JOSE DUARTE: OPEN THE DOOR OR WE'LL KICK IT DOWN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WE HAD NO EXIT EXCEPT OFF AN 18 STORY BALCONY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE DIDN' HAVE ENOUGH SHEETS ON THE BED TO MAKE IT 18 FLOORS.
I DON'T SEE ANY WAY OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: THERE WASN'T REALLY ANY OTHER OPTION.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WITH A LOT OF APPREHENSION AND FEAR, I OPENED THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: HANDS UP.
COME ON, COME ON! INTO THE ROOM.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ONE OF THEM IMMEDIATELY TOOK CHARLIE INTO CHARLIE'S BEDROOM AND CLOSED THE DOOR.
JOSE DUARTE: WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I'M BEING INTERROGATED BY THIS MAN, HE'S ASKING ME WHO I AM, WHAT AM I DOING THERE, WHO DO I WORK FOR? THIS OTHER MAN, HE'S GOT A BERETTA.
RENE BENITEZ: I AM RENE BENITEZ.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I AM RENE BENITEZ WHY ARE YOU ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT ME? RENE BENITEZ: WHO ARE YOU? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I WAS CONCERNED THAT THEY WERE TORTURING HIM OR BEATING HIM, TRYING TO GET INFORMATION OU OF HIM.
THEY SAID I NEEDED TO GET DRESSED.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AT THA POINT WHAT WAS PARAMOUNT IN MY MIND WAS HOW ARE WE GONNA GET OUT OF HERE? WHAT'S MY OPTIONS? I NEED TO CALL THE EMBASSY.
RENE BENITEZ: THERE IS ONLY ONE LAW IN COLOMBIA, IDIOT.
LET'S GO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
I THOUGHT AT THE VERY LEAS WE WERE IN FOR A GOOD BEATING.
THAT'S WHEN I SAW LAZARUS, THE HOTEL MANAGER.
HE WAS OBVIOUSLY NO THERE ON HIS OWN WILL.
RENE BENITEZ: WAS I THEM, WAS IT THEM? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE LOOKS A ME AND HE SHAKES HIS HEAD NO.
SO HE WAS TRYING TO DO THE BEST HE COULD TO SAVE US I GUESS.
THEY PULLED HIM BACK INTO THE STAIRWELL, WE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.
MY MIND IS RACING.
I'M LOOKING FOR SOME AVENUE OF ESCAPE.
I'M AMERICAN.
I'VE BEEN TAKEN AGAINST MY WILL.
IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD AT THAT POINT.
WE START DRIVING THROUGH TOWN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, ASK THEM WHERE WE'RE GOING? [SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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JOSE DUARTE: CALM DOWN.
WE'RE GOING THIS WAY TOWARDS THE POLICE STATION.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAID WE WERE GOING TO THE POLICE.
RENE BENITEZ: WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: BENITEZ HAS A BERRETTA WITH THE HAMMER STILL COCKED, AIMED AT ME.
RENE BENITEZ: YOU GRINGO'S ARE CRAZY, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? YOU COME INTO MY COUNTRY AND MESS WITH MY BUSINESS FORGET ABOUT IT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE HAS HIS FINGER ON THE TRIGGER ALL THIS TIME YOU KNOW, ALL IT WOULD TAKE IS JUST A FLINCH A LITTLE BIT.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE GUN, YOU KNOW, COULD EASILY GO OFF WITH A BUMP IN THE ROAD.
RENE BENITEZ: YOU'RE MAKING ME ANGRY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: STOP SHOUTING AT ME.
RENE BENITEZ: "STOP SHOUTING AT ME, STOP SHOUTING AT ME.
" KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE AND BENITEZ WERE ARGUING AND HOLLERING AT EACH OTHER.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I AM NOT GOING TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS.
I EVENTUALLY TELL HIM, I SAID, YOU KNOW, SCREW YOU, TAKE A HIKE.
THERE WAS THIS BLINDING FLASH AND A BANG.
YEAH, HE SHOT ME.
AND HE'D SHOT ME IN THE HIP.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YEAH, HE SHOT ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: 30 YEARS AGO I WAS SHOT IN THE HIP BY A DRUG TRAFFICKER.
TO THIS DAY I'M STILL DEALING WITH WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN COLOMBIA.
BECAUSE OF WHA HAPPENED I AM NOW IN NEED OF A HIP REPLACEMENT.
THAT MISSION CHANGED MY LIFE.
IT'LL BE SOMETHING I'LL NEVER FORGET.
THE IMPACT OF THE BULLET ROLLS ME A LITTLE BIT TO THE LEFT.
MY LEGS HIT THE GEAR SHIF SELECTOR ON THE HUMP AND KNOCKED THE CAR OUT OF GEAR.
JOSE DUARTE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: DUARTE HOLLERS AT BENITEZ, HE CAN'T GET THE CAR INTO GEAR, IT'S TOTAL CHAOS.
JOSE DUARTE: ARE YOU CRAZY? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE'S CRAZY, MAN.
JOSE DUARTE: YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I IMMEDIATELY BECAME CONCERNED ABOUT THE BLOOD.
AND I LOOKED DOWN AND MY PANTS WERE ALREADY SOAKED.
RENE BENITEZ: WHAT'S UP MAN, WHAT'S GOING ON? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE ONLY THING I COULD DO AT THAT TIME WAS APPLY PRESSURE TO WHERE THERE WAS THE MOST BLOOD.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: DUARTE GETS THE CAR BACK IN GEAR.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WE NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
WE NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
RENE BENITEZ: NOBODY'S GOING TO THE HOSPITAL.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: SUDDENLY I SEE A NEON SIGN.
HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SAID WE JUST PASSED IT AND THAT WAS NOT GOOD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHERE ARE WE GOING, MAN? WHERE ARE WE GOING? JOSE DUARTE: LOOK, THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE! KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: AFTER WE GOT OUT OF CARTAGENA, THEN IT DAWNED ON ME, WE WERE NOT GONNA BE GOING TO ANY HOSPITAL OR ANY POLICE STATION.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HE'S GOING TO BLEED OUT.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: WE WERE IN DEEP STUFF THEN.
WE WERE IN DEEP TROUBLE.
WE PULLED OFF ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
THE CAR STOPPED.
BUT THE ENGINE WAS STILL RUNNING.
DUARTE GET'S OUT OF THE CAR.
BENITEZ GETS OUT OF THE CAR.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: ARE YOU OKAY? JOSE DUARTE: THERE'S BLOOD ON THE SEATS IN STAINS.
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, THAT'S EVIDENCE? RENE BENITEZ: SO, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO KILL THEM? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEY'RE TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WANT TO SHOOT US IN THE CAR OR OUT OF THE CAR.
THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHAT? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I'M LISTENING TO ALL THIS AND I'M ACTUALLY STARING AT THE ACCELERATOR THINKING IF I CAN JUST HIT THAT ACCELERATOR THAT'S GONNA PUT SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND THE DANGER.
I CAN'T MOVE THIS THING.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I'M THINKING, IF I'M GOING TO BE KILLED I DON'T WANT TO BE KILLED SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR.
I WAS GOING TO MAKE THEM WORK FOR IT.
I FINALLY AM ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE CAR.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I SEE BENITEZ.
NO, NO, NO.
NO, NO.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: AND I JUST STARTED RUNNING.
[GUNSHOT.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE ROUND ENTERS MY RIGHT SHOULDER AND EXITS ON THE TOP OF THE SHOULDER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I KNEW WHEN I STARTED RUNNING THAT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING I COULD DO TO HELP CHARLIE.
[GUNSHOT.]
DUARTE'S NEXT SHO HITS MY RIGHT BUTTOCK.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
NO, NO, NO.
BENITEZ, HE'S STANDING THERE.
THE GUN AT MY HEAD, THE HAMMER COCKED, HE PULLS THE TRIGGER.
[CLICKING.]
AND AT THAT MOMENT, I REALIZED THAT WAS MY OPPORTUNITY.
WE START THROWING PUNCHES.
HE CATCHES ME AND WITH THAT MOMENTUM, I KEEP GOING.
RENE BENITEZ: VALENCIA, VALENCIA.
FIND HIM.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: NOW I'M IN ESCAPE AND EVADE MODE.
THE LAST RECOLLECTION I HAVE OF KELLEY WAS IN THE BACK SEAT.
AFTER THAT I LOST TRACK OF HIM.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE DID.
[PAINFUL GRUNTING.]
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: POR FAVOR! DUARTE'S STANDING RIGHT OVER ME.
[GUNSHOT.]
AND THE BULLET ENTERS THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY NECK AND COMES OUT MY LEFT ARMPIT.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS PROBABLY RESIGNED TO MY FATE.
[GUNSHOT.]
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HE SHOT ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: THE LAS RECOLLECTION I HAVE OF KELLEY WAS IN THE BACK SEAT.
AFTER THAT I LOST TRACK OF HIM.
[DISTANT GUNSHOT.]
I HEAR THIS LOUD GUN SHOT.
I COULD HEAR VOICES AND I DECIDED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE 'CAUSE KELLEY'S DEAD AND THEY'RE COMING AFTER ME.
I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO FEEL BAD OR ACCOUNTABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR KELLEY AT THAT MOMENT.
AT THAT MOMENT I WAS JUST THINKING I NEED TO "GET OUT OF DODGE.
" AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TO THINK, OKAY, WHAT DO I DO NOW? THEY'RE COMING AFTER ME.
HOW AM I GONNA GET AWAY? SO I BACKED TRACKED, LAY FLAT ON THE GROUND.
I COVERED MYSELF UP WITH LEAVES AND DIRT THE BEST I COULD.
AND I JUST LAID THERE.
I'M LISTENING FOR THEM.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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THEN I HEAR THEM TALKING TO EACH OTHER.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I WAS STAYING PERFECTLY STILL.
I DIDN'T EVEN WAN TO MOVE MY HEAD.
I'M LAYING THERE AND I FEEL THIS WARM FEELING STARTS IN MY SPINE.
AND IT GOES UP MY BACK AND THEN IT SPREADS.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BECOMES A BURNING STINGING SENSATION.
THERE WAS A COLONY OF, OF FIRE ANTS.
I COULDN'T MOVE AT THAT POIN 'CAUSE THEY WERE COMING BACK.
I HEAR THEM GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER.
AND THEY JUST KEP WALKING RIGHT PAST ME.
I'M OUT HERE BY MYSELF, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED, THE CAVALRY IS NO GOING TO ARRIVE.
IT'S UP TO ME TO SURVIVE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I LOOKED UP, LOOKED AROUND.
I WAS WAITING FOR THE FINAL BULLET THE COUP DE GRACE.
BUT IT DIDN'T COME.
DUARTE WAS GONE.
JUST A MIRACLE.
DAMN MIRACLE.
SO I TOOK OFF RUNNING.
THE ONLY THING I WANTED TO DO WAS TO GET AWAY FROM THOSE BAD GUYS AND GO AND GET HELP FOR CHARLIE.
I SAW A STEEPLE OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH.
THAT WAS MY BES HOPE AT THAT POINT.
HELLO, HELLO? PRIEST: YES? KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HELLO FATHER.
SO I EXPLAINED TO HIM THE BES I COULD AND THAT MY PARTNER WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED OR DEAD.
[SPANISH DIALOGUE.]
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I NEEDED TO GET A POLICEMAN AND A DOCTOR AND GO BACK OU TO SEE IF I COULD HELP HIM, AND SO, THE PRIEST SAID OK, HE GOT HIS LITTLE CAR OUT OF THE GARAGE.
FOUR OF US IN THE CAR AND WE GO BACK OUT AND FIND CHARLIE.
I DON'T REMEMBER HOW I KNEW WHERE TO GO BACK TO, BUT I GOT THEM TO APPROXIMATELY THE RIGHT PLACE.
DOWN HERE, I LAST SAW HIM.
CHARLIE! CHARLIE, CHARLIE, CHARLIE, CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: MY HIP NOW IS STILL THROBBING, IT'S STARTING TO BLEED AGAIN.
I WAS GETTING TIRED, I WAS COLD AND NO DOUBT I WAS GETTING WEAKER AND WEAKER.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I HEAR KELLEY'S VOICE AND HE'S CALLING OUT MY NAME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I KNEW IT WAS HIM.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: COME ON, CHARLIE, CHARLIE! CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND I'M THINKING MAN, HE'S NOT DEAD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I REALLY WANTED TO CRY OUT AND SAY, "HERE I AM," YOU KNOW, "I NEED YOUR HELP," KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE! CHARLIE MARTINEZ:BU THEN IMMEDIATELY I SAID, "WELL IF HE'S NO DEAD HE SHOULD BE DEAD" AND I'M THINKING THEY PROBABLY HAVE TORTURED HIM AND ARE USING HIM TO SMOKE ME OUT.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? CHARLIE! CHARLIE, WHERE ARE YOU, MAN? I COULD NO BELIEVE MY EYES.
BENITEZ COMING OUT OF THE DARK, COMING RIGH TOWARD ME WITH A GUN.
I'M THINKING THIS AIN'T GOOD.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, CHARLIE, GOD DAMN IT.
OFFICER: CHARLIE.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
I SAW BENITEZ COMING RIGHT TOWARDS ME WITH A GUN.
OFFICER: CALM DOWN.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? CALM DOWN.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I COULD HEAR YELLING.
OFFICER: EASY, EASY.
RUN, RUN.
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CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I HEAR BANG.
I IMMEDIATELY THOUGH OH, KELLEY'S DEAD NOW, I'M ON MY OWN.
AND I FIGURED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE HOT ON MY TRAIL VERY SHORTLY.
I HAD TO KEEP MOVING.
NOW IT'S LIKE 2:30 IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS JUST BREAKING DAWN.
I MADE MY WAY BACK TO THE HIGHWAY.
HELP, HELP, HELP.
STOP! NONE OF THE DRIVERS WANT TO STOP.
I TRIED SEVERAL TIMES.
AND FINALLY I SAW A CAB PLEASE, PLEASE! AND HE STOPPED AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, PLEASE JUST STAY THERE.
PLEASE.
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THERE'S THIS, LIKE, 18 YEAR OLD KID AND I DIDN'T WANT TO TELL HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED FOR FEAR THAT HE'D JUST GE SCARED AND TAKE OFF.
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SO I TOLD HIM I WAS INVOLVED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.
I NEED TO GET TO CARTEGENA.
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HE SAID, "WELL JUMP IN, I'LL TAKE YOU TO CARTAGENA.
" HE SAVED ME OUT THERE.
HE SAID, "WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?" AND I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, I SURE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING WITH THE POLICE, I DIDN'T THINK THA WAS A GOOD CHOICE, CONSIDERING THE FAC THAT SOME POLICE OFFICERS HAD JUST TRIED TO KILL US.
SO WHAT CAME TO MIND WAS THE COLUMBIAN NAVY AND THEY HAD A BASE THERE IN CARTAGENA.
AND THEY HAD A REPUTATION FOR BEING THE LEAST CORRUPT ORGANIZATION.
I STEPPED OUT AND I WALKED UP TO THE GUARD WHO WAS EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS OF ME, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT I LOOKED LIKE.
I'M AN AMERICAN.
I'M AN AMERICAN, PLEASE HELP ME.
I NEED HELP.
ONCE THEY DETERMINED THAT I WAS IN FACT WHO I SAID I WAS, THEY THEN TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL.
I STARTED TO SEE POLICE ARRIVE.
I WAS REALLY, REALLY NERVOUS THERE 'CAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHO THEY WERE.
WERE THEY TRUSTWORTHY? I WAS VERY VERY SUSPICIOUS OF ALL POLICE OFFICERS.
THEY WERE ABOUT READY TO WHEEL ME INTO SURGERY BUT I DID NOT FEEL SAFE.
AND ALL THIS TIME I HAD THIS REALLY TERRIBLE GUILTY FEELING.
I THOUGHT THA KELLEY WAS GONE, DEAD, AND HIS WIFE WAS GOING TO BE A WIDOW.
NOT A GOOD FEELING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: HELP, HELP! [GUNSHOT.]
30 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS SHO THE BULLET HIT THE EDGE OF THE SOCKET THAT HOLDS THE TOP OF THE FEMUR.
THE ONLY WAY TO RESOLVE THA IS TO REMOVE THE DAMAGED PARTS AND REPLACE THE HIP.
THE HIP OPERATION WILL CLOSE A CHAPTER AND OPEN A NEW ONE.
IN THE AGENCY WE HAD THIS UNSPOKEN ARRANGEMENT, YOUR PARTNER DEPENDED ON YOU AND YOU DEPENDED ON YOUR PARTNER.
WHEN I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, IT WAS JUST AN OVERWHELMING GUILT FEELING.
I THOUGHT THA KELLEY WAS GONE, THAT HE WAS DEAD.
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO SOMETHING TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE AND I FAILED.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: IT'S BEEN THIRTY YEARS NOW SINCE IT HAPPENED.
IT'S STILL VERY VIVID.
IT'LL BE VERY GOOD TO SEE MY OLD PARTNER AGAIN.
I'M SURE HE'S GOT OLD AND GREY AND UGLY BY NOW.
OLA, AMIGO.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE HIM COME IN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: HEY PARTNER.
WE GOT TO QUI MEETING LIKE THIS.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS MY THOUGHT EXACTLY.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I DID SAY IT WOULD BE INTERESTING.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: YOU DID SAY THAT.
IT WAS LIKE SOMEBODY TOOK A 10,000 POUND WEIGH OFF MY SHOULDER.
IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF, AND THEN HE EXPLAINED TO ME WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
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KELLEY HAD BEEN SHO TWO OR THREE TIMES.
I THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED, BUT HE FOUND A WAY TO ESCAPE.
HE FINDS A PRIEST, A DOCTOR AND A POLICE OFFICER.
HE COMES BACK LOOKING FOR ME.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: CHARLIE, CHARLIE.
WHERE ARE YOU, CHARLIE? AS HE WAS CALLING MY NAME, HE RAN INTO BENITEZ AGAIN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
AND I'M THINKING I CAN'T BE HAPPENING AGAIN.
THE POLICEMAN JUS GRABBED HIS ARM.
OFFICER: EASY, EASY.
RUN, RUN.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I TAKE OFF RUNNING REAL FAST.
YEAH, HE PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR ME, HE REALLY DID.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: I WAS AN AMAZING STORY.
YOU KNOW IT JUST SPEAKS VOLUMES AS TO THE TYPE OF MAN HE IS.
NEITHER ONE OF US FELT LIKE HEROES, WE JUST FELT LIKE WE DID WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO.
WHEN YOU CONFRONT THOSE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS AND YOU SURVIVE THERE'S BONDS THAT ARE CREATED THAT ARE LIKE NO OTHER BONDS.
KELLEY MCCULLOUGH: I LIKE YOUR TOGA.
THAT'S PRETTY, YOU'RE ALWAYS DRESSED PRETTY SPIFFY.
CHARLIE MARTINEZ: AND GOOD FRIENDS AND A COLD BEER MEAN A LOT MORE NOW THAN THEY USED TO.
I DON'T TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED.