Speaking of increasingly likable cartel bosses, Pacho is hanging out with Juarez Cartel leader Amado Carrillo, who parties so much even the Cali guys are thinking, “Hey, maybe just spend a night in with a book sometime.” Pacho’s brother, who’s presumably no stranger to luxury, is dazzled by Amado’s lifestyle, especially when Amado asks him if he likes margaritas. Still, Peña is heading straight for a confrontation with Cali: He stacks up multiple leads in the form of Jurado, the money launderer’s increasingly fed-up, coked-addled American wife, and the discovery of Gilberto’s hideout. The kids poisoned with chlorine gas aren’t great, but as everyone except Peña seems to realize, far worse lies in the future if the government goes to war with Cali. Maybe I’m letting my moral relativism show, but the cartel’s leaders are going to give up the business anyway. Forget congressional allocations and paramilitaries - CIA Bill just wants a friend!Īlthough Bill comes off as somewhat insane, he makes a good point: Narcos hasn’t made a good case for why Peña or anyone else should be eager for a war against the Cali bosses. (It’s funny how Bill has always seemed fond of Peña, even as he foils his underling at every turn.) “Did you ever stop to think that anyone who takes this as personally as you do is doing it wrong?” he says. Peña is all raw emotions and resentment, as usual, but Bill wants him to just kick back and enjoy the madness. But Bill doesn’t really care that Peña has him figured out, since Peña needs the funding as much as he does. Taken on a tour with senators of a supposed guerrilla drug lab, Peña quickly realized that CIA Bill and his mercenary friend staged the bloody scene to win more congressional funding. Fighting the drug war has certainly been a career quagmire for Peña, who spends the episode getting foiled by the shadowy machinations of CIA Bill. Probably correctly, Van Ness sees Cali as a dead end. Seeing Van Ness, who was reluctant to get involved in Cali, turn into a heavy as he braces the extremely hateable Pallomari is good old-fashioned Narcos fun. chaperone) with a search warrant they already filled out in Bogota. They’ve figured out Gilberto’s location, but that big break will no doubt be undone once someone higher-up gets involved.Īt least there are enjoyable moments along the way, like when Feistl surprises their Colombian liaison (a.k.a. The boys get an early win with the raid on Cali accountant Guillermo Pallomari’s office, for example, only to see it fall apart when they trust a Colombian police officer on the cartel payroll. The year may be different, but we’ve been down this road before. These guys are so ’90s, they debate Speed on a stakeout! Is this Narcos or Clerks? Van Ness even wears the very ’90s baseball cap and a T-shirt under an open button-down. In comparison, Feistl and Van Ness are ’90s bros all the way - these guys look like they were recruited from a Pacific Northwest hacky-sack circle. In the first two seasons of Narcos, our DEA BFFs had a sweaty atmosphere appropriate for the coked-out ’80s, with Murphy especially coming off like he just robbed a gas station.
It’s Murphy and Peña: The Next Generation! Murphy was written off the show and Peña is stuck babysitting senators in the jungle, but Narcos has brought back their bumbling buddy-cop energy in the form of chilled-out DEA agents Chris Feistl and Daniel Van Ness.
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