INT. CARSON’S OFFICE - SAME
There are two Mexican mafia thugs. One of them is holding a gun on CARSON, the man who is speaking to Pirelli on the other end of the cell phone. The thugs are coercing Carson to lie to Pirelli.
CLOSE ON -- BLACK HAND TATTOO on the thug’s neck. The camera pans to the other thug who has the NUMBER “13” TATTOO on his ARM.
Carson is speaking to Pirelli. He has a look of fright on his face. The thugs motion for the man to keep talking to Pirelli. Carson makes up a story to tell Pirelli. Carson is being strong-armed out of the oil leases by the mafia thugs.
CARSON
We missed the deadline, Pirelli. The leases went to a fracturing company with eclectic interests in that oil patch. Maybe we can do business next time. Somebody just walked in, Pirelli. I gotta go.
Carson hangs up the phone.
THUG
Give us the leases, culero! You’re in business with Sinaloa cartel. Don’t forget it.
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INT. PIRELLI’S OFFICE TRAILER - SAME
Pirelli is sitting at his desk talking on his cell.
PIRELLI
Carson, you make sure BLM doesn’t void those oil leases.
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INT. CARSON’S OFFICE - SAME
CARSON
Pirelli, BLM is pulling out all the stops to kill what they’re calling “defective” leases.
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INT. PIRELLI’S OFFICE TRAILER - SAME
PIRELLI
Fix it, goddammit! Get somebody in your corner with the Feds. Presidential campaign is coming up—tie-in with Russia.
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INT. CARSON’S OFFICE - SAME
CARSON
Those leases won’t be easy to aquire. They’ve been declared invalid. And fracking is out of the question!
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INT. PIRELLI’S OFFICE TRAILER - SAME
PIRELLI
The Catholic Church is in bed with the mafia. The church owns the land bordering the oil field. Mexico’s Sinaloa drug family is in bed with the DEA. Call the governor. He’ll take a bribe. Organize the powers that be.
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INT. CARSON’S OFFICE - SAME
CARSON
BLM says they put those leases up without considering the environmental impacts. They say they were issued in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Somebody over there takes a bribe, it’s gonna be their ass! They were issued without consideration of the Roadless Rule applied to forest land.
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INT. PIRELLI’S OFFICE TRAILER - SAME
PIRELLI
(forceful, threatening)
Then persuade them, or it’s gonna be your ass!
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Wyatt and Doc call out the Sinaloa and Sureños. They yell out to the Sinaloa and Sureños. Wyatt and Doc have their guns at the ready, both armed.
WYATT
Sinaloa! Sureños! Everpresent vigilantes in a cycle of retaliation! Take your vengeance and untie your drug bundles. Hell, let it all spill blood and tar on the street.
DOC
Vacate your positions! Rival factions waging a turf war to control economics is a precursor to your dirt plot. Be a daisy! You die today out of ignorance, bigotry and greed!
SINALOA
(yelling back, mocking in strong Mexican dialect)
You dealers expect a good angel to appear! Red queens taking a cut off casino profits. White powder or black jack, it makes no difference—a line is a line.
WYATT
Men, there's gonna be a wreck of the cartel train. Look at their belt buckles─rooster for marijuana, parrot for cocaine─goat for heroin.
SUREÑOS
Our alliance with the Aryan brotherhood is loose, but with respect. You white collar entrepreneur card sharks and Sinaloa die with humility today. The judge took the bribe at our insistence. Tijuana cartel is gaining a foothold.
WYATT
You bring your heroin and whores to pimp with your laundry to wash and we’re shuttin’ it down, right here, right now. Hemp clothesline rope is severed. Only cannabis is legal here. We don’t need the cartels. We don’t have to obtain a federal court order.
DOC
He’s right. Your political pull is not strong enough to buy your heartbeat. Corruption is a steady stream of immigration and manipulation. We'll take no prisoners or a series of lawsuits that will last for years. When the smoke clears from the weed our ammunition will be exhausted.
SINALOA
You’re rich with Aesop’s fable.
WYATT
Cartel cowboys making sacrifices at the altar to your narco trafficker saint, Jesus Malverde. It’s all wrapped up inside the burro’s tortillas, the rosary tale of sugar cane and the chile plant. Get ready, Doc─even evil has its standards.
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INT. OFFICE TRAILER - DAY
Pirelli is talking on his cell phone.
PIRELLI
The route has been set. I control all major entry ports and the Nogales Gate. The U.S. oil leases are a front. The rival cartels who have formed alliances against me are powder. My cartel enemies say I'm a little illiterate, but a trafficking chameleon. It's been blood wars. I'm done here.
SHOCKER! It is “El Chapo” Joaquin Guzmán, Mexican drug lord. The thick mustache reveals his identity.
