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Aug 28, 2015 · Descenso: Directed by José Padilha. With Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Joanna Christie. Chilean drug chemist Cockroach brings his product to Colombian smuggler Pablo Escobar.
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"Descenso" is the first episode of Season 1 of Narcos and the first episode overall. It is the series premiere.
Chilean drug chemist Cockroach brings his product to Colombian smuggler Pablo Escobar. DEA agent Steve Murphy joins the war on drugs in Bogota.
The episode begins in Bogota, Colombia in 1989, it is narrated by Steve Murphy. He talks about how hard it was for the intelligence agencies back then to capture a phone call, especially a satellite one. They capture Poison calling Lizard setting up a meeting in a local pub later that night. They use that information to inform Drug Enforcement Administration about it. They, in turn, pass this information to Horacio Carrillo who uses it to take Poison down. He kills many (innocent) people in that pub as a side effect of killing Poison and this fact is used as an illustration of what it takes to fight the drug business.
The event pictured is actually a flash-forward from what happens at the end of the Season 1. After the first scene and the series intro, the action rolls back to Chile, in 1973 for the actual start.
The episode continues and introduces some characters: Cockroach, Pablo Escobar, Gacha and their role in the cocaine business the Medellín cartel started.
Later in the scene when the drugs cargo lead by Pablo who was pulled over by the police. Pablo talks briefly to the police officers showing them he knows a lot about them and their families. By this, he demonstrates how deep he controls the police (even on the personal level) and how much the police officers have to lose. At the end of the conversation, he asks the police officers to choose between silver (being bribed to let them through) or lead (being killed by armed Pablo crew).
The show then shows the basic operation of the Cartel including how the cocaine is produced and trafficked.
Pablo discovers his deal with the local police was not kept and goes to the police station himself to find out why. It turns out the police found out how much cargo Pablo traffics is worth and they are disappointed on how small cut they get for letting it through. Pablo gets angry, yells at the officer and gets his mug shot. The whole situation is later erased from the registries (proving how powerful Escobar is).
Starring
•Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar •Boyd Holbrook as Steve Murphy •Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña •Joanna Christie as Connie Murphy •Maurice Compte as Horacio Carrillo •André Mattos as Jorge Luis Ochoa •Roberto Urbina as Fabio Ochoa •Diego Cataño as La Quica •Jorge A. Jimenez as Poison •Paulina Gaitán as Tata Escobar •Paulina García as Hermilda Gaviria
Guest starring
•Luis Guzmán as José Rodríguez Gacha •Juan Pablo Raba as Gustavo Gaviria •Juan Riedinger as Carlos Lehder •Richard T. Jones as Agent CIA •A.J. Buckley as Kevin Brady •Luis Gnecco as Cockroach •Jon Ecker as The Lion
Co-starring
•Ariel Sierra as Sure Shot •Julián Díaz as El Negro •Carolina Gaitán as Marta Ochoa •Adrián Jiménez as Herrera DAS Agent •Jorge Castellanos as Ibarra DAS Agent •Thaddeus Phillips as CIA Agent Owen •Juan Murcia as Juan Pablo Escobar •Alexander Doncel as Zapata •Jaider Velasco as Car Salesman •Buster Rojas as Gacha's Partner •Santiago Tocarruncho as Peru Lab Manager •William Lowe as Professor at Stanford •RJ Russell as Student at Stanford •Jason Chad as Technician •Juan Manuel Lenis as Riano •Jorge Monterrosa as Trujillo •Dorian Keller as El Tosca •Jefferson Paez as Lagarto •Mike Morgan as Judge •Nahara Riveros as Stewardess •Steven Galarce as DEA Agent #1 •Tim Jansen as DEA Agent #2 •Gustavo Rincón as Chilean Soldier •Alejandra Parra as Doe-Eyed Colombian Girl •Diana Wiswell as Cockroach's Wife •Fiona Horsey as Connie's Friend •Johanna Rubio as Pregnant Woman •Tiffany Joy as Nurse #2
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Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) is connected with a cocaine chemist known as Cockroach from Chile. Together they build their empire, planning and executing new ways of trafficking drugs to and from Cuba and supplying the content to Miami (Florida). After getting betrayed by Cockroach, Pablo takes revenge on him. — Jayanta Patra.
Aug 28, 2015 · Daniel Daza/Netflix. Read all of our “Narcos” recaps. Season 1, Episode 1: “Descenso”. How do you tell the story of Pablo Escobar, the most notorious drug kingpin in history? That question has stymied writers and filmmakers for years, because there’s simply too much story to tell: about the rise of Colombia (and specifically Escobar ...
