The DFS isn’t happy with their cut, and they slaughter an entire compound of people to get their point across. Gallardo’s doing okay now that he’s king of the castle, but his position is an unstable one. He loves his family - just look at his face when he’s holding the baby! - but there’s no question as to where his priorities lie: The episode ends with a “the gang’s back together” moment as the DEA agents pin Gallardo as the man at the party everyone’s kowtowing to, i.e., the man they need to catch. But Kiki manages to get away thanks to the hoods they all have to wear, snags a piece of the harvest (which comes from a truly endless field of weed), and gets back to the city right as his wife gives birth to their baby boy. It’s almost smooth sailing all the way through, except for a brief brush with El Azul, who almost recognizes him while watching the workers get back on the buses to head back to town. (I wonder if this will hold true for the rest of the season - Gallardo’s half of the show is certainly bloodier, but where he can act pretty openly, Kiki has to deal with a lot more subterfuge in order to get his way.) He follows the trucks again, but this time, he makes it all the way to a little outpost where, after ingratiating himself with one of the workers, he dives right into working on the farm. Make no mistake, Gallardo’s half of the episode is fun, but Kiki’s realization of the magnitude of what he’s dealing with is the more exciting part of the episode. Then there’s Kiki’s expedition out to the pot farm. For another, a lead on a gangster takes them straight to the governor’s son’s wedding, which, being arranged by Gallardo, is a veritable Who’s Who of the city’s wealthy and powerful - including those known to be in the drug trade. They’re initially still resistant - especially after a surveillance flight that they request turns up nothing but photos of empty desert - but the evidence that something is rotten in the state of Denmark (well, Guadalajara) is piling up to the point that they can’t ignore it anymore.įor one thing, it turns out that the surveillance photos are from a year ago. Though there’s still bureaucratic red tape pretty much everywhere, Kiki at least has Kuykendall & Co.
Every puzzle piece has snapped into place (if you’re watching this - or any Netflix show, really - you probably don’t need me to tell you that there’s always some narrative fat to be trimmed, but that’s neither here nor there), and the season has broken into a sprint.
Though, stumbles and all, this season of Narcos has been moving at a relative brisk clip, the third episode noticeably turns up the heat.
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