Genre: Crime/Drama/Biography
Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Dwight Gallo
Based on the documentary
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Caleb Landry Jones, Salma Hayek, Jason Clarke, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Leven Rambin, Jacob Vargas, Esai Morales, Amaury Nolasco, Raul Esparza
Plot: Miami, Florida - 1979. Jon Roberts (Mark Wahlberg) arrives in the sun and fun of Miami Beach from New York with just $750 to his name. He goes to a nightclub where he witnesses how popular cocaine has become. Ever the hustler, Jon uses all of his money to by a pound of cocaine. Jon quickly flips the drugs inside the clubs and is soon rolling in the cash. He is stunned at how quickly and easily he can sell cocaine in Miami.
Miami local Mickey Munday (Caleb Landry Jones) flies his Aero Commander 680 aircraft to Florida, staying low to avoid being detected by radar. He has 2000 pounds of marijuana onboard that he is smuggling into the US from Mexico. He flies low along the west coast, knowing the Coast Guard is more likely to patrol the eastern shores of the state. He lands at a tiny runway in the swamps. He unloads the giant packs of marijuana into the back of a truck.
Miami drug queen pin Griselda Blanco (Salma Hayek) calls her enforcer, Rivi Ayala (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), into her bedroom where is she is lounging around smoking basuco, an unrefined cocaine paste. She gives him the location of a dealer who owes them money. She tells Rivi to follow the man until he is in a public place, then kill him to send a message to anyone who thinks they can mess with her business. Rivi nods his head and leaves, one of Blanco's other enforcers, Miguel Perez (Amaury Nolasco) goes along with Rivi.
Rivi and Miguel drive a nondescript white van, following the man and his bodyguard from a house to a liquor store at the Dadeland Mall. Rivi makes sure his Uzi is loaded, and suggests Miguel does the same. The two get out of the van. While the target and his bodyguard are at the counter purchasing some liquor, Rivi and Miguel fire the entire magazines of 20 bullets from their Uzis into the targets through the front windows of the store. Once their guns are out of ammunition, they drop their gun and calmly get back into the van and drive away.
Jon is living it up in the clubs, selling cocaine as fast as he can get his hands on it. One night, he sees a beautiful woman, a model named Toni Mooney (Leven Rambin). He treats her to some blow and she begins talking about how much she loves horses. Jon lies to her and tells her that he owns a racehorse. They go back to his place on the beach and have sex. In the morning, with Toni still asleep in his bed, Jon makes a few phone calls and buys a racehorse to make his lie a reality.
Mickey makes a delivery of the marijuana to a group of Colombians led by Rafa Salazar (Jacob Vargas), who suggests that Mickey leave the marijuana smuggling to less talented men and start bringing in cocaine for them from Colombia. Mickey isn't sure as he's pretty content with what he's been doing. Rafa informs Mickey that the marijuana isn't moving much, but people are buying cocaine like crazy so they can pay him a lot more if he switches product. Mickey tells Rafa that he'll think about it and collects his payment.
Jon becomes frustrated with his cocaine suppliers' lack of product as he knows he can sell more than they can give him. He insists he can sell 50-100 kilos of the the stuff, no problem, but they tell him they only have 10 kilos a week for him. While Jon is picking Toni up from a photo shoot, he complains to her about his connections not being able to supply him with as much cocaine as he can sell. Toni tells Jon that she knows a guy who might be able to help - a pilot who works with some Colombians.
Toni takes Jon to go and meet Mickey at his place out in the swamps outside of Miami. Mickey makes both Toni and Jon prove that they aren't wearing a wire or any kind of recording devices. Mickey is immediately put off by Jon and his flashy car and clothes, but he agrees to introduce Jon to his Colombian employers as a favor to Toni. Mickey and Jon arrive at a house in suburban Miami. When they enter the house, there are a dozen heavily-armed Colombians waiting for them. Rafa Salazar (Jacob Vargas) comes out to greet them like they're old friends. Jon tells Rafa his predicament, which Rafa laughs about. Rafa then leads them to a backroom where he slides away a wall, revealing a hidden room stacked full of cocaine. Jon's jaw drops at the sight. Rafa tells Jon that if he comes back with money tomorrow, he will hook him up with whatever he needs.
In the morning, Jon collects all of his hidden stashes of money throughout his house. Toni is stunned that he has so much money hidden around. Once Jon has all of his cash, he drives to Rafa's stash house. When he arrives, Rafa introduces Jon to his compadre Max Mermelstein (Jason Clarke). While Rafa's workers are loading up Jon's car, Rafa explains to Jon that he has to go back to Colombia a lot for business, but that if he isn't around Jon can always go through Max for anything he needs.
Griselda Blanco orders Rivi to kill Chucho, one of her former enforcers. Rivi is a conflicted because he used to work with Chucho. Blanco tells him that if he doesn't kill Chucho, she'll have Chucho kill him. Rivi drives up alongside Chucho's car, fires several shots into the car. He misses Chucho, but hits Chucho's young son who had been in the passenger seat. Rivi speeds off, upset with himself. When he reports back to Blanco, he expects her, as a mother, to be angry about the accidental death of a child, but she seems oddly pleased by it.
Jon goes back to Rafa's for product frequently. While Jon is loading product into his car, he overhears Rafa complaining about having to explain the actions of Griselda Blanco to his bosses down in Colombia: the Ochoas. Once everything is loaded up, Rafa tells Jon that he has made him a rich man and offers him a job to help bring product into the country with Mickey. Jon says he has never done any smuggling, but Rafa tells him to go see Mickey and work with him as the guy is a genius at smuggling. Jon drives up to Lakeland, Florida, where Mickey has built a runway and an airplane hangar. Mickey shows him around the property. Jon asks if the cops ever come sniffing around, and Mickey says that he knows how to avoid heat, explaining that he flies up to damn near Georgia before coming South - nobody is expecting stuff to be coming from the north. Jon, initially thinking Mickey was just some redneck, is impressed by Mickey's ingenuity.
Mickey and Jon fly Mickey's plane down to Medellin, Colombia, landing at a makeshift airstrip in the middle of the jungle. As soon as they land, they are greeted by Rafa, who tells them that he happened to be down in Colombia doing some business and wanted to say hello to them. The three of them watch as workers begin loading the plane with packages of cocaine, several hundred kilos. While they are loading up the plane, Mickey refills the plane's fuel tank. Rafa tells Jon that if the shipment goes well and Max informs him that all of his people have received their profit, there may be some extra work with someone as enterprising as him. Jon smiles and shakes Rafa's hand before loading back up on to the plane.
The shipment goes perfectly. Jon asks Mickey if there is any way they can increase the number of shipments they can make. Mickey says that there are two ways they could do that. One way would be to hire some more pilots, but that is just asking for extra heat. Jon asks about the second way. Mickey says that he has this idea to drop the product from the plane out by the Bahamas or the Keys and bring it the rest of the way by boat since it wouldn't take as much fuel and they wouldn't have to fly all the way north before landing. Jon convinces Mickey that they should try it.
Jon presents the plan to Max, who in turn runs it by Rafa. Mickey sends a video recording down to Colombia to show them how he needs the packages prepared for such a drop. For this run it is arranged that Mickey will be the man on the boat, while one of Rafa's men down in Colombia will drop the packages by the Inugua Islands near the Bahamas. The drop goes as planned, except that the Colombians didn't follow Mickey's packaging instructions and a lot of the packages burst open as they hit the water. Mickey loads a few thousand kilos of product into a hidden compartment on his boat, then starts driving north toward Florida. Mickey is driving past Key West on his way to Tampa to bring in the shipment, when he is stopped by a US Customs boat. They ask what he's doing, and Mickey tells them he's just testing out his new boat. As the US Customs boat is driving away from Mickey, their engine breaks down. Mickey, feeling confident, offers the customs agents a tow. The customs agents ride on Mickey's boat as he tows them to Fort Myers, standing mere feet away from half a million dollars worth of cocaine.
Jon, who now has a mansion, stables full of racehorses and a collection of sports cars, gets into a heated argument with Toni while both of them are high on Jon's cocaine supply. Toni gets into one of the cars and tries driving away, but Jon gets into another car and crashes into Toni's car. They take turns crashing their cars into each other until both cars are inoperable. Jon gets out of his car and demands that Toni get out and talk to her. He apologizes to her, but sternly warns her about leaving him by mentioning that the Ochoas don't exactly like loose-ends.
Dario Sepulveda (Esai Morales), Griselda Blanco's husband, walks in on Griselda smoking basuco and having sex with another woman, high out of their minds. Dario writes Griselda a note, saying that she fears for Michael's safety they stay in Miami with her, so they have gone back to Colombia. Dario grabs their young son, Michael Corleone, and heads to the airport. Dario, with Michael in his arms, boards a plane bound for Bogota, Colombia.
When Griselda comes out of her basuco haze, she begins looking around the property for Dario and Michael, finally finding the note. She grabs a gun and begins wildly firing it around the house. Once she is out of ammunition, she takes a deep breath. She then calls some contacts in Colombia. She offers them half a million dollars to have Dario killed and Michael brought back to her in Miami.
Rafa informs Max that the Ochoas want him to kill another American who turned on them. Max tries to explain that he's just an engineer, not a killer. Rafa laughs, and tells him good luck in explaining that to the Ochoas. Stressed by the thoughts of personally killing someone, Max begins swiping cocaine from Rafa's stash house and smoking it.
In Bogota, armed gunmen invade a house and kill Dario, shooting him several times. Blood splatters all over young Michael's face and he begins crying. The gunmen give Michael some candy and carry him out of the house. Back in Miami, Griselda is reunited with Michael, who is still in shock from wiBased oin tnessing his father's murder. She tells Michael that she is the only child she has left and she won't let anyone take him away, no matter who they are.
Griselda Blanco orders Rivi and Miguel to go kill a man and his wife because they owe her $250,000 for five kilos of cocaine that were delivered to them. Rivi says that job is simple enough. On their way out of her house, she says that they should kill anyone else in the house as well.
Rivi and Miguel arrive at the house. Rivi first asks the man if he has the money, even though it's clear he doesn't. Rivi puts two bullets in the man's head. In the other room, Miguel fires an Uzi at the wife, but the several bullets to the chest don't kill her. Rivi walks into the room and shoots the woman in the head, putting her out of her misery. As they search the house for drugs or money, they discover three frightened children watching television in another room. Miguel aims his gun at them, reminding Rivi that Griselda told them to kill anyone in the house. Rivi takes the gun away from Miguel, telling him that they were hired to kill the man and his wife, not a bunch of children. Miguel says that Griselda is going to be mad. Rivi tells Miguel to let him worry about that. That night, Rivi goes home and gives his daughter a kiss on the forehead as she sleeps.
Jon and Toni are at the horse track where Jon's horse, Desperado, is the better's favorite to win the race. Jon watches with pride as his horse wins the race. He tells Toni that the horse has a serious shot at making the Kentucky Derby at this rate. Toni asks Jon if he can just work the horse racing game, and stop all the drug business. Jon laughs and tells her that the drug game is what pays for the horse racing game. Jon notices how disappointed Toni looks and tells her that maybe if Desperado wins the Derby they can talk about it again.
Mickey continues making improvements to the property in Lakeland. There are now two runways and two airplane hangars disguised as barns. He continues making upgrades to the boats and planes to make the business run ever smoother.
Griselda tells Rivi that a business rival was coming back to Miami from Colombia to steal her business. Rivi asks her what she wants him to do about it. She then shows him a vintage World War II bayonet and tells Rivi that she wants the man killed like the pig he as soon as he gets through Customs. Rivi calls the plan a suicide mission and refuses. Instead she gets Miguel to agree to do it, but she orders Rivi to drive him.
At the airport, Miguel waits with the bayonet hidden under his jacket while Rivi watches from a safe distance. When the man comes through the Customs gates, Miguel quickly charges him and stabs him several times. Airport guests stare in shock at the vicious attack. As soon as Miguel gets to back onto his feet, he is tackled by multiple airport police officers. Miguel looks to Rivi for help, but Rivi walks away from the area.
Rafa tries to convince Griselda to leave Miami, saying that the murders she keeps ordering are drawing way too much attention to their business. Griselda scoffs at his request, but Rafa insists that the Ochoas are serious and shouldn't be disrespected. He tells her that they would be fine with her conducting business in California, but that she has drawn way too much attention in Florida and needs to leave.
Rafa meets with Max and informs him that the Ochoas want Max to arrange a hit on a pilot turned government witness named Barry Seal. Max tries to talk his way out of it, but Rafa insists that the Ochoas want an American to plan it and that Barry's continued testimony could put a wrench in things for everyone.
Griselda, having decided to leave for California soon, offers Rivi the chance to join her there. Rivi, exhausted by Griselda's unhinged methods, tells her that he plans on going to Chicago instead where his family is. Griselda tells Rivi she understands his choice as family is the most important thing in life.
Max is driving his car around and starts to suspect he is being followed. When he arrives at the stash house, Max tells Rafa that he thinks he's being followed. Rafa suggests Max is just being overly paranoid and tells him to stop smoking so much cocaine as it is clouding his usually sound judgement. Rafa looks out the window and doesn't see anything. He then looks at Max, dead serious, and tells him that if he is being followed though, to not lead them to his location.
On his drive home, Max is pulled over by several unmarked cars. The authorities announce themselves as both DEA and Miami-Dade Police. Lt. Raul Diaz (Raul Esparza) leads the bust. They search his car and find multiple guns as well as nearly half a million dollars in cash stashed throughout the vehicle.
When he hears that Max has been busted, Rafa gets ready to leave Miami and head back to Colombia. Before he leaves for the airport, Rafa gives Jon a call, telling him the situation. Jon takes garbage bags full of money from his house and buries them in the Everglades. Toni doesn't think that Max is the type to turn witness for the government, but Jon thinks it's better to be safe than sorry.
Lt. Raul Diaz informs Max of all the charges the feds and the police can charge him with, which would keep him behind bars for quite some time. Max quickly offers to help them shut down the entire operation. He tells them that he knows everything from the street level stuff all the way up to the cartel, the Ochoas and Pablo Escobar - and even Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega. Diaz tells Max to start talking and maybe they can work something out.
Jon goes to see Mickey, and the two of them decide to lay low for a while until they where the wind is blowing on the operation following Max's arrest. The next morning, the DEA and state police show up to conduct a raid on Mickey's property. Mickey ends up in the standoff with the authorities. He uses a flare gun to blow up barrels of fuel inside on of the airplane hangars. Under the cover of the flames and explosions, Mickey escapes into the Florida swamps. Later in the day, Lt. Diaz and a group of officers bust Jon as he is leaving his house. They arrest him and take whatever money he still had stashed at his house - millions of dollars.
When DEA agents show up to raid Griselda Blanco's house, they find her in bed reading the Bible. She tries to tell them she is someone else, but they don't buy it and bring her into custody. Once she is put in handcuffs, she kicks and screams and it takes several agents to get her into a vehicle.
After hearing about the arrests going on, Rivi knows the authorities are bound to come after him sooner or later. He grabs whatever cash he can find in his house and heads to the airport. As he is going through the terminal at the Miami International Airport, an MDPD officer calls after him, saying he's under arrest. Rivi says he is mistaken and keeps walking. Suddenly, police dogs are sent after him. Rivi tries outrunning the police dogs, but catch up and attack him. The officers then catch up and handcuff him as the dogs keep him on the ground.
At a preliminary hearing, Jon is informed by a judge that they will be holding him without bail. Jon strikes a deal with the DEA, offering to help them catch Mickey if they let him post a bond to be released until trial. Angry about Mickey's fiery escape, they accept his offer. Diaz tries to convince his superiors that Roberts has no intention of turning witness like Max and is just using them, but they ignore his warning. Jon contacts Mickey and assures him that he isn't going to snitch on him, but he is trying to bide some time so he can try to get out of Miami.
Jon bids farewell to Toni, telling her that he needs to get out of the country while he can. Toni asks where he's going, and Jon tells her that he is going to head down to Colombia, saying that Rafa and his people will take care of him down there. Jon then goes to Rafa's mansion in Colombia. After a while of being a fugitive in the comfort of Rafa's mansion, the Colombian military shows up at the mansion. Rafa is killed in a shootout with the military. When Jon sees Rafa killed in front of him, he surrenders to the authorities. He is sent back to the United States to face trial.
The ever-confident Rivi is rattled when he is informed that he is facing the death penalty since they have enough evidence to convict him of at least three executions, if not more. Rivi tells them that it was all Griselda Blanco. She wanted him to kill innocent women and children and he wouldn't do it. He offers to testify against Blanco if he can avoid the death penalty.
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Caleb Landry Jones, Salma Hayek, Jason Clarke, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Leven Rambin, Jacob Vargas, Esai Morales, Amaury Nolasco, Raul Esparza
Plot: Miami, Florida - 1979. Jon Roberts (Mark Wahlberg) arrives in the sun and fun of Miami Beach from New York with just $750 to his name. He goes to a nightclub where he witnesses how popular cocaine has become. Ever the hustler, Jon uses all of his money to by a pound of cocaine. Jon quickly flips the drugs inside the clubs and is soon rolling in the cash. He is stunned at how quickly and easily he can sell cocaine in Miami.
Miami local Mickey Munday (Caleb Landry Jones) flies his Aero Commander 680 aircraft to Florida, staying low to avoid being detected by radar. He has 2000 pounds of marijuana onboard that he is smuggling into the US from Mexico. He flies low along the west coast, knowing the Coast Guard is more likely to patrol the eastern shores of the state. He lands at a tiny runway in the swamps. He unloads the giant packs of marijuana into the back of a truck.
Miami drug queen pin Griselda Blanco (Salma Hayek) calls her enforcer, Rivi Ayala (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), into her bedroom where is she is lounging around smoking basuco, an unrefined cocaine paste. She gives him the location of a dealer who owes them money. She tells Rivi to follow the man until he is in a public place, then kill him to send a message to anyone who thinks they can mess with her business. Rivi nods his head and leaves, one of Blanco's other enforcers, Miguel Perez (Amaury Nolasco) goes along with Rivi.
Rivi and Miguel drive a nondescript white van, following the man and his bodyguard from a house to a liquor store at the Dadeland Mall. Rivi makes sure his Uzi is loaded, and suggests Miguel does the same. The two get out of the van. While the target and his bodyguard are at the counter purchasing some liquor, Rivi and Miguel fire the entire magazines of 20 bullets from their Uzis into the targets through the front windows of the store. Once their guns are out of ammunition, they drop their gun and calmly get back into the van and drive away.
Jon is living it up in the clubs, selling cocaine as fast as he can get his hands on it. One night, he sees a beautiful woman, a model named Toni Mooney (Leven Rambin). He treats her to some blow and she begins talking about how much she loves horses. Jon lies to her and tells her that he owns a racehorse. They go back to his place on the beach and have sex. In the morning, with Toni still asleep in his bed, Jon makes a few phone calls and buys a racehorse to make his lie a reality.
Mickey makes a delivery of the marijuana to a group of Colombians led by Rafa Salazar (Jacob Vargas), who suggests that Mickey leave the marijuana smuggling to less talented men and start bringing in cocaine for them from Colombia. Mickey isn't sure as he's pretty content with what he's been doing. Rafa informs Mickey that the marijuana isn't moving much, but people are buying cocaine like crazy so they can pay him a lot more if he switches product. Mickey tells Rafa that he'll think about it and collects his payment.
Jon becomes frustrated with his cocaine suppliers' lack of product as he knows he can sell more than they can give him. He insists he can sell 50-100 kilos of the the stuff, no problem, but they tell him they only have 10 kilos a week for him. While Jon is picking Toni up from a photo shoot, he complains to her about his connections not being able to supply him with as much cocaine as he can sell. Toni tells Jon that she knows a guy who might be able to help - a pilot who works with some Colombians.
Toni takes Jon to go and meet Mickey at his place out in the swamps outside of Miami. Mickey makes both Toni and Jon prove that they aren't wearing a wire or any kind of recording devices. Mickey is immediately put off by Jon and his flashy car and clothes, but he agrees to introduce Jon to his Colombian employers as a favor to Toni. Mickey and Jon arrive at a house in suburban Miami. When they enter the house, there are a dozen heavily-armed Colombians waiting for them. Rafa Salazar (Jacob Vargas) comes out to greet them like they're old friends. Jon tells Rafa his predicament, which Rafa laughs about. Rafa then leads them to a backroom where he slides away a wall, revealing a hidden room stacked full of cocaine. Jon's jaw drops at the sight. Rafa tells Jon that if he comes back with money tomorrow, he will hook him up with whatever he needs.
In the morning, Jon collects all of his hidden stashes of money throughout his house. Toni is stunned that he has so much money hidden around. Once Jon has all of his cash, he drives to Rafa's stash house. When he arrives, Rafa introduces Jon to his compadre Max Mermelstein (Jason Clarke). While Rafa's workers are loading up Jon's car, Rafa explains to Jon that he has to go back to Colombia a lot for business, but that if he isn't around Jon can always go through Max for anything he needs.
Griselda Blanco orders Rivi to kill Chucho, one of her former enforcers. Rivi is a conflicted because he used to work with Chucho. Blanco tells him that if he doesn't kill Chucho, she'll have Chucho kill him. Rivi drives up alongside Chucho's car, fires several shots into the car. He misses Chucho, but hits Chucho's young son who had been in the passenger seat. Rivi speeds off, upset with himself. When he reports back to Blanco, he expects her, as a mother, to be angry about the accidental death of a child, but she seems oddly pleased by it.
Jon goes back to Rafa's for product frequently. While Jon is loading product into his car, he overhears Rafa complaining about having to explain the actions of Griselda Blanco to his bosses down in Colombia: the Ochoas. Once everything is loaded up, Rafa tells Jon that he has made him a rich man and offers him a job to help bring product into the country with Mickey. Jon says he has never done any smuggling, but Rafa tells him to go see Mickey and work with him as the guy is a genius at smuggling. Jon drives up to Lakeland, Florida, where Mickey has built a runway and an airplane hangar. Mickey shows him around the property. Jon asks if the cops ever come sniffing around, and Mickey says that he knows how to avoid heat, explaining that he flies up to damn near Georgia before coming South - nobody is expecting stuff to be coming from the north. Jon, initially thinking Mickey was just some redneck, is impressed by Mickey's ingenuity.
Mickey and Jon fly Mickey's plane down to Medellin, Colombia, landing at a makeshift airstrip in the middle of the jungle. As soon as they land, they are greeted by Rafa, who tells them that he happened to be down in Colombia doing some business and wanted to say hello to them. The three of them watch as workers begin loading the plane with packages of cocaine, several hundred kilos. While they are loading up the plane, Mickey refills the plane's fuel tank. Rafa tells Jon that if the shipment goes well and Max informs him that all of his people have received their profit, there may be some extra work with someone as enterprising as him. Jon smiles and shakes Rafa's hand before loading back up on to the plane.
The shipment goes perfectly. Jon asks Mickey if there is any way they can increase the number of shipments they can make. Mickey says that there are two ways they could do that. One way would be to hire some more pilots, but that is just asking for extra heat. Jon asks about the second way. Mickey says that he has this idea to drop the product from the plane out by the Bahamas or the Keys and bring it the rest of the way by boat since it wouldn't take as much fuel and they wouldn't have to fly all the way north before landing. Jon convinces Mickey that they should try it.
Jon presents the plan to Max, who in turn runs it by Rafa. Mickey sends a video recording down to Colombia to show them how he needs the packages prepared for such a drop. For this run it is arranged that Mickey will be the man on the boat, while one of Rafa's men down in Colombia will drop the packages by the Inugua Islands near the Bahamas. The drop goes as planned, except that the Colombians didn't follow Mickey's packaging instructions and a lot of the packages burst open as they hit the water. Mickey loads a few thousand kilos of product into a hidden compartment on his boat, then starts driving north toward Florida. Mickey is driving past Key West on his way to Tampa to bring in the shipment, when he is stopped by a US Customs boat. They ask what he's doing, and Mickey tells them he's just testing out his new boat. As the US Customs boat is driving away from Mickey, their engine breaks down. Mickey, feeling confident, offers the customs agents a tow. The customs agents ride on Mickey's boat as he tows them to Fort Myers, standing mere feet away from half a million dollars worth of cocaine.
Jon, who now has a mansion, stables full of racehorses and a collection of sports cars, gets into a heated argument with Toni while both of them are high on Jon's cocaine supply. Toni gets into one of the cars and tries driving away, but Jon gets into another car and crashes into Toni's car. They take turns crashing their cars into each other until both cars are inoperable. Jon gets out of his car and demands that Toni get out and talk to her. He apologizes to her, but sternly warns her about leaving him by mentioning that the Ochoas don't exactly like loose-ends.
Dario Sepulveda (Esai Morales), Griselda Blanco's husband, walks in on Griselda smoking basuco and having sex with another woman, high out of their minds. Dario writes Griselda a note, saying that she fears for Michael's safety they stay in Miami with her, so they have gone back to Colombia. Dario grabs their young son, Michael Corleone, and heads to the airport. Dario, with Michael in his arms, boards a plane bound for Bogota, Colombia.
When Griselda comes out of her basuco haze, she begins looking around the property for Dario and Michael, finally finding the note. She grabs a gun and begins wildly firing it around the house. Once she is out of ammunition, she takes a deep breath. She then calls some contacts in Colombia. She offers them half a million dollars to have Dario killed and Michael brought back to her in Miami.
Rafa informs Max that the Ochoas want him to kill another American who turned on them. Max tries to explain that he's just an engineer, not a killer. Rafa laughs, and tells him good luck in explaining that to the Ochoas. Stressed by the thoughts of personally killing someone, Max begins swiping cocaine from Rafa's stash house and smoking it.
In Bogota, armed gunmen invade a house and kill Dario, shooting him several times. Blood splatters all over young Michael's face and he begins crying. The gunmen give Michael some candy and carry him out of the house. Back in Miami, Griselda is reunited with Michael, who is still in shock from wiBased oin tnessing his father's murder. She tells Michael that she is the only child she has left and she won't let anyone take him away, no matter who they are.
Griselda Blanco orders Rivi and Miguel to go kill a man and his wife because they owe her $250,000 for five kilos of cocaine that were delivered to them. Rivi says that job is simple enough. On their way out of her house, she says that they should kill anyone else in the house as well.
Rivi and Miguel arrive at the house. Rivi first asks the man if he has the money, even though it's clear he doesn't. Rivi puts two bullets in the man's head. In the other room, Miguel fires an Uzi at the wife, but the several bullets to the chest don't kill her. Rivi walks into the room and shoots the woman in the head, putting her out of her misery. As they search the house for drugs or money, they discover three frightened children watching television in another room. Miguel aims his gun at them, reminding Rivi that Griselda told them to kill anyone in the house. Rivi takes the gun away from Miguel, telling him that they were hired to kill the man and his wife, not a bunch of children. Miguel says that Griselda is going to be mad. Rivi tells Miguel to let him worry about that. That night, Rivi goes home and gives his daughter a kiss on the forehead as she sleeps.
Jon and Toni are at the horse track where Jon's horse, Desperado, is the better's favorite to win the race. Jon watches with pride as his horse wins the race. He tells Toni that the horse has a serious shot at making the Kentucky Derby at this rate. Toni asks Jon if he can just work the horse racing game, and stop all the drug business. Jon laughs and tells her that the drug game is what pays for the horse racing game. Jon notices how disappointed Toni looks and tells her that maybe if Desperado wins the Derby they can talk about it again.
Mickey continues making improvements to the property in Lakeland. There are now two runways and two airplane hangars disguised as barns. He continues making upgrades to the boats and planes to make the business run ever smoother.
Griselda tells Rivi that a business rival was coming back to Miami from Colombia to steal her business. Rivi asks her what she wants him to do about it. She then shows him a vintage World War II bayonet and tells Rivi that she wants the man killed like the pig he as soon as he gets through Customs. Rivi calls the plan a suicide mission and refuses. Instead she gets Miguel to agree to do it, but she orders Rivi to drive him.
At the airport, Miguel waits with the bayonet hidden under his jacket while Rivi watches from a safe distance. When the man comes through the Customs gates, Miguel quickly charges him and stabs him several times. Airport guests stare in shock at the vicious attack. As soon as Miguel gets to back onto his feet, he is tackled by multiple airport police officers. Miguel looks to Rivi for help, but Rivi walks away from the area.
Rafa tries to convince Griselda to leave Miami, saying that the murders she keeps ordering are drawing way too much attention to their business. Griselda scoffs at his request, but Rafa insists that the Ochoas are serious and shouldn't be disrespected. He tells her that they would be fine with her conducting business in California, but that she has drawn way too much attention in Florida and needs to leave.
Rafa meets with Max and informs him that the Ochoas want Max to arrange a hit on a pilot turned government witness named Barry Seal. Max tries to talk his way out of it, but Rafa insists that the Ochoas want an American to plan it and that Barry's continued testimony could put a wrench in things for everyone.
Griselda, having decided to leave for California soon, offers Rivi the chance to join her there. Rivi, exhausted by Griselda's unhinged methods, tells her that he plans on going to Chicago instead where his family is. Griselda tells Rivi she understands his choice as family is the most important thing in life.
Max is driving his car around and starts to suspect he is being followed. When he arrives at the stash house, Max tells Rafa that he thinks he's being followed. Rafa suggests Max is just being overly paranoid and tells him to stop smoking so much cocaine as it is clouding his usually sound judgement. Rafa looks out the window and doesn't see anything. He then looks at Max, dead serious, and tells him that if he is being followed though, to not lead them to his location.
On his drive home, Max is pulled over by several unmarked cars. The authorities announce themselves as both DEA and Miami-Dade Police. Lt. Raul Diaz (Raul Esparza) leads the bust. They search his car and find multiple guns as well as nearly half a million dollars in cash stashed throughout the vehicle.
When he hears that Max has been busted, Rafa gets ready to leave Miami and head back to Colombia. Before he leaves for the airport, Rafa gives Jon a call, telling him the situation. Jon takes garbage bags full of money from his house and buries them in the Everglades. Toni doesn't think that Max is the type to turn witness for the government, but Jon thinks it's better to be safe than sorry.
Lt. Raul Diaz informs Max of all the charges the feds and the police can charge him with, which would keep him behind bars for quite some time. Max quickly offers to help them shut down the entire operation. He tells them that he knows everything from the street level stuff all the way up to the cartel, the Ochoas and Pablo Escobar - and even Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega. Diaz tells Max to start talking and maybe they can work something out.
Jon goes to see Mickey, and the two of them decide to lay low for a while until they where the wind is blowing on the operation following Max's arrest. The next morning, the DEA and state police show up to conduct a raid on Mickey's property. Mickey ends up in the standoff with the authorities. He uses a flare gun to blow up barrels of fuel inside on of the airplane hangars. Under the cover of the flames and explosions, Mickey escapes into the Florida swamps. Later in the day, Lt. Diaz and a group of officers bust Jon as he is leaving his house. They arrest him and take whatever money he still had stashed at his house - millions of dollars.
When DEA agents show up to raid Griselda Blanco's house, they find her in bed reading the Bible. She tries to tell them she is someone else, but they don't buy it and bring her into custody. Once she is put in handcuffs, she kicks and screams and it takes several agents to get her into a vehicle.
After hearing about the arrests going on, Rivi knows the authorities are bound to come after him sooner or later. He grabs whatever cash he can find in his house and heads to the airport. As he is going through the terminal at the Miami International Airport, an MDPD officer calls after him, saying he's under arrest. Rivi says he is mistaken and keeps walking. Suddenly, police dogs are sent after him. Rivi tries outrunning the police dogs, but catch up and attack him. The officers then catch up and handcuff him as the dogs keep him on the ground.
At a preliminary hearing, Jon is informed by a judge that they will be holding him without bail. Jon strikes a deal with the DEA, offering to help them catch Mickey if they let him post a bond to be released until trial. Angry about Mickey's fiery escape, they accept his offer. Diaz tries to convince his superiors that Roberts has no intention of turning witness like Max and is just using them, but they ignore his warning. Jon contacts Mickey and assures him that he isn't going to snitch on him, but he is trying to bide some time so he can try to get out of Miami.
Jon bids farewell to Toni, telling her that he needs to get out of the country while he can. Toni asks where he's going, and Jon tells her that he is going to head down to Colombia, saying that Rafa and his people will take care of him down there. Jon then goes to Rafa's mansion in Colombia. After a while of being a fugitive in the comfort of Rafa's mansion, the Colombian military shows up at the mansion. Rafa is killed in a shootout with the military. When Jon sees Rafa killed in front of him, he surrenders to the authorities. He is sent back to the United States to face trial.
The ever-confident Rivi is rattled when he is informed that he is facing the death penalty since they have enough evidence to convict him of at least three executions, if not more. Rivi tells them that it was all Griselda Blanco. She wanted him to kill innocent women and children and he wouldn't do it. He offers to testify against Blanco if he can avoid the death penalty.
- Jon Roberts was released from prison in 2000. He reportedly made a living by selling out drug dealers to the DEA until his death by cancer in 2011.
- Mickey Munday was a fugitive for six years before finally being captured. He served 10 years in prison. In 2012, he was convicted of auto-fraud conspiracy and sentenced to 12 years behind bars.
- Rivi Ayala was convicted of three murders with the possibility of parole after 25 years for his cooperation in testifying against Griselda Blanco. However, his testimony against Blanco was thrown out when it was discovered that he had engaged in phone sex relationships with multiple secretaries from the state attorney's office from behind bars. He was denied parole in 2013.
- Max Mermelstein's testimony helped bring down the Medellin Cartel's distributors in Miami. The cartel put a $3 million contract on his head. He was placed in the Witness Protection Program, where he remained until his death from cancer in 2008.
- Griselda Blanco continued to run her business from a federal prison. After nearly 20 years behind bars, Blanco was released and deported to Medellin, Colombia. Her whereabouts were unknown for several years until she was assassinated in 2012 outside of a butcher shop in Medellin, Colombia.
