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NARCOS is the true story of the U.S. and Colombian efforts to battle the Medellin cartel during the cocaine-fueled drug wars of the 1980's.

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00:03Imagine you were born in a poor family in a poor country and by the time you were
00:0928 years old you have so much money you can't even count it.
00:25But I don't want to get ahead of myself.
00:32I'm Steve Murphy, drug enforcement agent.
00:35In 79, the bad guys I was chasing wore flip-flops.
00:38DEA, stop!
00:39Why are you running, huh? What you got? What is that?
00:42When I started, a one kilo grass bust was cause for celebration.
00:48Before long, we were seizing 60 kilos of coke a day.
00:52The hippies had been replaced by Colombians and these guys didn't wear flip-flops.
01:00We were witnessing the formation of the famed Medellin Cartel.
01:04There was Jose Rodriguez Gacha.
01:06The Ochoa brothers.
01:08And last but not least, Pablo Escobar.
01:12Before long, the narcos were pulling in five billion dollars a year.
01:17And that, America can take.
01:19Holy love can make it rain.
01:23Whatever's going on here?
01:25Like the sweat of lovers.
01:26I'm in the Hall of Light.
01:28Laying in the fields.
01:30I hope you know what that means.
01:32In war.
01:32Good and bad are out of concept.
01:35This was my war.
01:36I won't!
01:44Your party took money from Escobar.
01:46Everyone took money.
01:47By the way, it's all America money.
01:50If there's one thing I've learned in the narco world,
01:52it's a life that's more complicated than you think.
01:59We had no idea what we were in for.
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