Last Dance
As the Mexican government struggles to keep up with the demands of a rapidly changing economy, Pablo Escobar and his men take control. With money and power at their fingertips, they plot to take down the president and create a new era of stability in Mexico. But as Escobar’s men become more powerful, they also become more dangerous. And as the president tries to build a new team to help him fight back, he realizes that he may not have enough support within his own government… or within his own family.
The rich are feeling the pinch more severely, but there are others who don’t share in this pain. In fact, Amado sees this as an opportunity to double his own worth. Ultimately, this forces Hank’s hand, given he needs to work with Amado for the time being. ..
Amado, a new supplier of the Cali Cartel, meets with his new suppliers and learns that they are not happy with the cartel members working with the government. Because of this, they plan to kill them in cold blood, telling Amado this in advance. ..
Pacho and Amado share a moment of happiness after the meeting is over. Pacho doesn’t know he’s going to be killed, leading to a somewhat bittersweet feeling.
Meanwhile, Andrea meets up with Kate, who turns out to be the mole she’s been working with. She hands over boxes full of statements related to a slush fund worth over $700 million. Working together, they track it down to several small banks in El Paso. Of course, this also means that it can be linked back to Hank too. ..
Walt wakes up a mess; beaten and broken. He still refuses to talk though. San Diego are breathing down Walt’s neck, and given the DOJ want indictments, he’s running out of time. They need Alex on their side, given he’s the key to all of this, but that puts Walt in a difficult position too, given the Mexicans are keeping him off the records for now.
The only way to solve this is by finding Alfredo, but the General is confident that Alex will break eventually, and they should keep the pressure up on him.
Walt takes a different tack though and heads in to see Alex himself, asking about Alfredo. He tries to level with him, talking about his own family and even promising to keep Alfredo safe from harm. Unfortunately Alfredo is far from safe, especially when Walt and his buddies rock up in the hotel room and find him and his girlfriend sitting with bullets through their forehead.
Walt lies to Alex and tells him that Alfredo wasn’t there. Instead, he heads back and fronts Alex, deciding to play some tapes from the Arellano family, given he’s been around them and knows their voices. And thanks to Walt’s persuasive methods, he agrees.
Two months after the peso collapsed, Victor is still investigating the murder of the woman on the bus. He’s noticed a big car that looks like the one that was mentioned in connection with the murder, and he’s been keeping an eye on the bus depot over the nights. ..
Victor’s comrades at the police station notice his descent and unfortunately, that results in Victor losing his job and being laid off. Now, given the devaluation of the peso these few months, it’s perhaps unsurprising but his partner gets to keep his job.
Victor, now stuck on this morally ambiguous line between right and wrong, finds himself struggling to keep up pretenses and find new employment. Only, it’s not really employment given he’s been laid off. ..
Anyway, his real task is following whoever it is responsible for taking girls from the bus stop – and he may just have stumbled upon the culprit. Noticing their car leaving at night, he tails them. That is, until his tyre pops and he comes up trumps once more. Damn it. ..
As the episode comes to a close, we cut back to Havana where Amado makes a big decision and decides to walk away from the drug trade. After Escobar and the others have met an untimely demise, he wants to start over. Marta agrees to come with him… but is all of this too good to be true?
The Episode Review
As the camera zooms out on Amado, in a graveyard surrounded by tombs, there’s something of a foreshadowed expectation here that this guy is going to die before the season’s done. It’s a clever bit of foreshadowing for sure, and something that works incredibly well to back up what an excellent job the team have done with this show.
The story is constantly enthralling and these later chapters have really started to hammer home the widespread repercussions across the drug empire that Amado has helped create. However, it looks like he’s after an out; trying desperate to jump from this doomed ship. Will he get his happily ever after though?
Narcos: Mexico has been a brilliant show so far. ..
