Dope (2017) s03e02 Episode Script

1 I sell cocaine.
My product always, always comes from Colombia because everybody likes this stuff.
It’s the drug season! We have to be vigilant because there’s going to be even higher quantities of drugs coming in.
Here, we have the best one.
 One hundred percent.
This area is our territory where we operate.
The mission to destroy it by the end of the day.
Send more soldiers in front.
I’m an employee of the Clan Golfo.
It’s very risky, but you have to work where the money is.
Thirty seconds.
When I’m going to kill someone, I go to church.
I light a candle with the image of the Virgin Mary.
I don’t believe in religion, but I believe in God.
I had to kill five or six people I have another three pending.
God forgive me for this.
Monsters and demons I hear monsters and demons I can feel bad things Underneath my skin Santiago is a hitman.
I’m the hitman.
They send me to take care of people who fuck up.
He works for a crew of cocaine traffickers based in Medellín.
I’ve been doing this for eight years.
There’s only few people who know.
But today, he's got to put the contracts on hold.
Who is it? Mel.
- What’s up, bro? - What’s happening? A cocaine shipment has come into the gang's stash house, and Santiago has to ride shotgun until it leaves the city.
This is a nine millimeter.
At the moment, it’s clean.
But the others we have are tarnished.
We’ve committed several homicides with them.
Lying in Colombia's northwest, the province surrounding Medellín produces cocaine destined for Spain, Europe, and beyond.
In this block there is a boss, and in the next one there is another.
They pay me what I ask.
If I ask for one million for hitting someone, they pay for it.
The top dog in the drug trade is the Clan Del Golfo.
They run a tight operation.
The point is the organization does well, you know? No one steals anything.
Nothing gets lost.
This can’t happen.
If there’s something strange going on, they call me.
They tell me, "Go take care of it.
" So I go.
I try to reason with them, but if they don’t obey, they’re dead.
The coke Santiago is protecting comes from a region deep in the Colombian mountains.
Here, cocaine starts life as coca leaves worth around one dollar a kilo.
They call us criminals and we’re doing something illegal.
But it’s for the money, that’s what everyone is interested in these days.
Carlos owns a large plantation.
Here, there’s around 12,000 trees.
We peasants live by the coca plants.
Carlos can make around $14,000 a year from his coca plants, and his biggest customer is the Clan Del Golfo.
It’s not only the owners who profit from this now.
Many people do.
You can see these young guys who pick it.
Some are working to feed their mothers.
Picking is paid by arroba.
- You, my friend, have ten.
- Ten.
If you pick ten, you earn 60,000 pesos, per day.
You won’t earn that anywhere else, not even in a company.
With the harvest over, Carlos turns his leaves into coca paste.
Stage one in the cocaine making process.
It takes around twelve arrobas of coca leaves to make one kilo of coca paste.
In order to start the process, we need to add water and acid.
We’re going to pour in three containers.
We work it for three days.
After three days, we get the paste out.
They say the state will finish it at any moment.
But in fact, instead of ending, it has increased.
I'm gonna hunt you down Yeah, I ain't playing around I'ma take your crown Man, better run, gonna hunt you down These are not regular street cops.
They're a part of a massive combined operation with the army to take down the Clan Del Golfo.
One piece at a time.
The mission to take action quickly.
The objective to destroy it by the end of the day.
The departure time is 10 AM.
Today, Colonel Quintero and his men are going into bandit country.
This is an operation, an aerial assault, with the aim to spray illicit coca crops.
The target area lies on the edge of Clan-controlled territory.
Quintero's men are bracing themselves for a hostile reception.
They have big firepower.
They have explosives experts, many of whom we have captured during these operations, but they are still capable of inflicting damage.
The cops dare stay on the ground for only 20 minutes.
We’re here at a coca crop farm.
This is coca and what we’re here to do is to apply glyphosate, because aerial fumigation is suspended.
We’re doing it here on the ground Quintero's men have to spray and rip out the bushes by hand.
It's hard labor in tough conditions.
Ten minutes left, Colonel And the clock is ticking.
Quintero calls time.
Let’s get out of here.
More than 20 hectares of coca have been eradicated.
This operation has been a success.
Carlos has learned to live with passing helicopters and what they might mean.
Who gives a shit? Unless they come and get us, there’s nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, he needs to finish cooking this batch of paste.
We add lime.
When it is ready, we add gasoline.
When we have no more gasoline, we can put more water in because the syrup is forming.
We get the paste from the syrup.
- Do you have a ladle? - Which one? Any.
My paste is good quality, very clean.
Very pure.
The last stage is the paste.
As leaves, the coca was worth $1 a kilo.
As paste, the price shoots up to $780 a kilo.
I’ll take it out and sell it to the buyer.
Here’s the cargo, Don Pedro.
- Hope you do well.
- We will be in touch.
The paste is about to go on a long journey.
As a mule, I take the paste to the people who buy it, and there it is moved to the place where it is crystallized.
We don’t all know how to crystallize it so we have to transport the paste by waterways.
Hi guys, how’s things? Pedro makes this trip every eight weeks with the same crew.
You have to do it with people you trust because even another peasant might betray you.
Today he's carrying just a kilo of paste, but once converted to powder, it will command a big price in Spain.
It's a two-day journey, and he's feeling exposed.
It’s very difficult because you’re at risk from the army, police.
And there is a risk of ending up in jail.
I don’t want to end up caught or in imprisoned, but the reality is that this could happen and you are scared.
Pedro's right to be anxious.
Good morning to you all.
Right now, what we are going to do is a counter drug trafficking operatio We are going to enter at a point that is secure from the riverbank.
Are there any questions? This Colombian Army unit is gearing up for a mission, and things could get hot.
Today we intent to locate a crystallizing lab, and we are going to carry out its destruction.
Blowing up a lab carries a high risk of provoking the clan.
Torres keeps in close contact with base.
Tell me what you see.
Okay, we're going in.
The danger is from the enemy and can be unexpected.
There’s constant fear.
Slowly.
Here we could find explosive devices.
We could find armed groups.
Send more soldiers in front Everybody keep your weapons ready the whole time.
Another one.
According to our plans, the lab is 300 metres upstream.
That makes access difficult for us.
We have found what we came for.
It's a tense moment.
If clan fighters are here, now's the time they'll make their move.
Here you can see the crystallizing facilities.
You can see that it is quite a big structure.
But not today.
The lab is empty, and the coke is gone.
This is filter paper.
They use this at different stages to get a purer mixture.
So all the residue is left on here and all the water goes through, and the product is left on the top.
Then they put it in the microwaves, which gets rid of all the moisture, and then they put into these bags.
These are rubber bags that are water resistant.
One of these little bags can hold up to five or six kilograms of cocaine.
Look at how much is on the floor.
We can confirm that this lab can produce 800 kilograms in just one day.
Let me know when you’re about to detonate.
Don’t just go ahead.
We need to make sure everyone is safe.
Everyone in safety positions.
Thirty seconds.
Mission accomplished.
But the smoke could betray their position.
Torres, and his men, are still not safe.
Everybody go back down.
We need to get out of here quickly because we are in a vulnerable position.
Come on.
Come on, quick.
Army operations mean delays for mules like Pedro.
It’s hard because you have to wait a day, or two, for the army to move from the path you are taking to avoid them.
You have to wait.
Or go back a different way.
That might take another five or six hours.
It’s a tough life, dangerous, risky because your life is exposed.
[Edwin in Spanish Hello? Yeah, bro.
Where are you? Is it ready or not? We agreed that you bring the goods here, to me.
Do you get me? Talk to you later.
At the stash house in Medellín, Santiago's boss is waiting for a fresh delivery from the lab.
A business can never run out of product, because if it does, it cracks.
Edwin ships out coke for the Clan Del Golfo.
If you do things quietly, everything goes ok.
Who is it? The mule.
When we are sent the goods, they are very well stashed.
The coke's value has shot up again from $780 a kilo for paste, to $2,500 a kilo for pure cocaine.
And it's Santiago's job to guard it.
There are four or eight people on every corner.
You know, for extra security.
We don’t need a neighbor calling the police.
The coke isn't at the Stash House for long.
The Clan Del Golfo's cocaine is for international distribution, and this batch is bound for Spain.
I’m in charge of sending this to the coast.
If the boss of the Clan Golfo calls me and they tell you to start taking out coke, what you have to do here is to manage the coke, produce it properly and package it and you give it to the Clan Golfo guy.
They tell me where and I send them the drug s to the coast by road.
Edwin sends his coke to the Caribean coast stashed in the back of a goods truck.
The 200 mile journey from Medellín, to the Port of Turbo, takes seven hours.
Turbo is the Clan Del Golfo stronghold.
Once here, the coke's value doubles to $5,000 dollars per kilo.
But the law isn't far away.
All these boats, we’ve seized with narcotics.
They all belong to the Clan Golfo.
As you can see, they have a double bottom.
They stash the drugs in these compartments and for us to get to them, we need to break it, and we find the holes where the traffickers hide the drugs.
Coke, cocaine, blow Here we have the best one, 100%.
That’s why foreigners love it.
I’m an employee of the Clan Golfo.
I’ve been working for the Clan Golfo for 24 years.
This is our route Between the Gulf of Uraba and the sea.
Raoul moves the coke by river from Apartadó to the coast, and then, onto the Port of Turbo.
Today, he has to get his cargo to a big container ship bound for Spain.
The drugs have already been marked.
The boss aims to send it as far as he can because the further it goes, the more it’s worth.
They might send 4,000 or 5,000 kilos.
Raoul can't afford o lose this load to the cops.
The stakes are too high.
There would be a lot of deaths, because someone will have snitched.
It's very risky, but you have to work where the money is.
We take it down to the river to the containers.
The ones carrying bananas.
It’s already wrapped, we just put it in the containers.
The containers are loaded onto the ships, and that’s it.
The Clan Golfo operates here.
Right now, because of this criminal organization, we are going to a port terminal where different exports leave from.
Castillo's got a lead on cocaine hidden where you least expect: in a shipment of bananas.
How are you my friend? We’re going to do some inspections here, thank you.
Hi, how’s it going? Do you know where these boxes are going? These are for Spain.
Spain.
Can I take a look? Thank you ma’am.
We inspect inside the fruit.
How many bananas do you put in a box? One hundred and ten bananas.
One hundred ten bananas.
We inspect the edges of the boxes.
But right now, unfortunately, we didn’t find any drugs.
We didn’t find anything.
They won’t put an end to the cocaine, because it will never finish here, because a lot of people, here in Colombia, depend on it.
It's been a good day for Raoul.
His coke is onboard a ship heading for Spain.
Everyone has been bought, because everyone has a price.
Monkeys dance for money.
The clan's coke travels 4,800 miles across the Atlantic to Cádiz in southern Spain, and from there, moves overland to the capital: Madrid.
Now that the coke is in Spain, it shoots up from its Colombian value of $5,000 a kilo, to $30,000.
This stuff does not understand money, race, it doesn't understand anything.
Mercedes is prepping her stash for the weekend.
I sell cocaine.
This one is to snort, and I also sell base cocaine to smoke.
I’m making one gram bags here.
Normally, I pay between 34 or 35 Euros per gram and I sell it for 60 Euros.
I have all sorts of clients.
There are people who are truly wretched, and there are filthy rich people.
You can have a butcher to a taxi driver, who you least expect.
Even the neighbourhood idiot uses it! Because everybody likes this stuff.
This comes from Colombia and it’s 98 to 99% pure.
I don’t cut my product because I think it’s better to sell it pure.
And I sell a lot more of it.
My product always comes from Colombia because my supplier is Colombian.
I tell him what I want and he brings it.
I am the last link in the chain.
I was a Jehovah’s Witness.
Look at me now! This is the final destination for the Clan del Golfo's cocaine: the business end of a crack pipe.
It's good stuff! Now I’m warming it up.
Give me a lighter.
So it gets warmer and boils, same as food.
And now we have the base.
I can smoke this in two hits.
Mario, and Frida are chronic crack users.
I’ve been smoking cocaine for about 15 years.
I’ve been smoking for around 23, 24 years.
When I met him, he was high.
Smoking base gives users a quick, intense high.
It gives you a hit so hard, it knocks you down I can already feel it.
It's extremely addictive.
Delicious! When I first started smoking, I told my daughter in confidence.
But she doesn’t want us to do it because she says we’re old! Also, she’s ashamed of us.
If my daughter could see me now, she’d chop my arm off.
I have to quit.
- I'm going to.
- Yes, when I’m dead - Fuck, whatever.
- I will.
I’m not, I like it.
He loves it! It makes him feel younger.
As crack's grip tightens on the city, it's the police who encounter the fallout.
Drugs are taken everywhere in Madrid.
Cocaine consumption has gone up a lot, just like all other drugs.
But cocaine in particular.
Whoever is hooked on cocaine and needs it, because a drug is a drug, and whoever needs it, steals.
It’s a cycle brought on by drugs, crime, and robberies to get your fix It's 1 AM.
Officers Fernandez and Diaz are halfway through a night patrol.
Night brings out a lot of people who don’t come out during the day.
They could be carrying drugs.
They spot a woman on her own.
Hello, How are you? Okay.
Where do you come from? I live on the streets Yes? Yes.
She seams distressed.
People who are addicted, their appearance has totally deteriorated.
They live on the street.
Many of them consume cocaine base, cocaine you smoke.
You use drugs? What do you use? - Cocaine base.
- Cocaine base? Yes.
I’m going to search you, ok? Don’t worry, you just turn around and that’s all.
I have nothing on me, I have already smoked it.
So, I don’t know why you are that upset if you have already smoked it.
Yes but That’s it, there’s nothing to worry about.
The pipe.
Here is where they put the cocaine base and they smoke it.
This is the mouthpiece, they put the cocaine here, they light it and they smoke it.
The cops can do little but confiscate the drug paraphernalia and send her on her way.
But sometimes, the authorities get lucky.
Dockside in Cádiz.
It turns out that Colombian traffickers don't only ship coke hidden in containers, and the cops have had a major breakthrough.
It’s the drug season! Inspector García, not his real name, is an undercover agent working for Spain's elite law enforcement unit: Greco.
The drug gangs have many ways to bring the cocaine to Spain, and when the summer comes, they use these kind of boats.
These types of boats are very common in Spain A few days ago, García and his team busted this yacht.
IIlegal merchandise in the market has a high price.
And they struck gold.
Here, we’ve got everything stored.
Fifteen hundred kilos of cocaine straight from Colombia.
It's a massive haul and the top brass wanna show it off the press.
We’re gonna take what we’ve found Son of a bitch! But each box weighs around 30 kilos.
Man, it's hot.
And it is 80 degrees.
Fuck.
Come out of there, you’re gonna have a stroke! A little faster down there! We’re not doing anything up here! Let’s go! Come on! The crew is in custody.
García has no doubt they're professionals.
They are a very experienced caption and sailors.
They get paid a fixed price per jouney.
It can be 80, 90 or 100 thousand euros.
The giant coke bust is big news.
Do you know if these people were taking drugs? No, they don’t touch the cargo because this would anger the organization.
This needs weighing.
- It's really heavy.
- Twenty? It's 28,515 kilograms.
I’m gonna get my things and take a shower.
It's a good day for the Spanish cops.
Disgusting! But back in Medellín, a loss of this size will mean hard questions for the Clan del Golfo's workforce, and Santiago will have new contracts to fulfill.
This is the way my life turned out.
It’ll last as long as it lasts.
I know some day I’m going to fall, but I don't fear death because we're all going to die one day.
I’ve had a gun pointed at me several times, but, thanks to God, I survived.
An angel’s looking out for me.
I've just turned 25 and have a son.
Everything I do is for him.
But I wouldn’t want the kid to know I’m a hitman.
I wouldn’t want him to know about this, or get into drugs.
I want him to get ahead.
Go to university.
Get a degree.
And yes, take him forward with God’s help.
You gotta have faith.
Faith can move mountains.