Se Cayó El Sistema is the eighth episode of Season 2 of Narcos: Mexico. It aired on February 13, 2020.
Synopsis[]
Mexican authorities, the FBI and Félix all seek out Acosta after a newspaper publishes an interview with him. The presidential election begins.
Plot[]
Acosta goes to the American press and gives an interview on the trafficking through Mexico, leading to multiple parties looking to hunt him down. Breslin finds Acosta in a small border town to give him an immunity deal, but Acosta is killed in a joint DFS and FBI assault on the town.
Félix is in Mexico City overseeing the election results with the computers displaying false results from the polling stations leading to a lower voter turnout, but they crash the system when others get suspicious. Félix then makes his plazas go to the polling stations and alter the tally results of the election for a PRI win. They burn the physical ballots afterwards. Herrera informs Félix his 70 tons of coke are ready for pickup and Amado must rush to get his planes ready in time; Amado then finds the trackers on the planes.
Cast[]
- Diego Luna as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
- Joaquín Cosío as Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo
- José María Yazpik as Amado Carrillo Fuentes
- Ernesto Alterio as Salvador Osuna Nava
- Tessa Ia as Sofia Conesa
- Alejandro Edda as Joaquín Guzmán Loera
- Alfonso Dosal as Benjamín Arellano Félix
- Fermin Martinez as Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
- Fernanda Urrejola as Maria Elvira
- Gerardo Taracena as Pablo Acosta
- Gorka Lasaosa as Héctor Palma Salazar
- Viviana Serna as Guadalupe Leija Serrano ("Lupita")
- Guillermo Villegas as Sammy Alvarez
- Tenoch Huerta as Rafael Caro Quintero
- Horacio Garcia Rojas as Tomas Morlet
- Jackie Earle Haley as Jim Ferguson
- Manuel Masalva as Ramón Arellano Félix
- Teresa Ruiz as Isabella Bautista
- Yul Vazquez as John Gavin
- Julio Cesar Cedillo as Commander Guillermo Calderoni
- Scoot McNairy as Walt Breslin
- Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar
- Alberto Ammann as Hélmer Herrera
- Francisco Denis as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (reprising his role from Narcos)
- Pêpê Rapazote as José Santacruz Londoño
- Jorge A. Jimenez as Roberto Ramos
- Julián Díaz as Blackie
- Eric Lange as Bill Stechner
- Brian Buckley as John Clay Walker
- Mike Doyle as Thomas Buehl
- Sosie Bacon as Mimi Webb Miller