ALONZO BOAZ CAMILA CASTEL CITIZENS COP COP_2 CORTEZ DANIELA EPIFANIO FALCON GEORGE GUERO GUESTS HUMMER ISABELA IVAN JAMES KIQUE MAN MEN OLEG POTE PSYCHIC REPORTER REYNALDO ROCO SOLDIERS TERESA THE_QUEEN VALERIE WAITER WOMAN TERESA Previously on Queen of the South. CAMILA Where do I know you from? TERESA I was Guero's girlfriend. CAMILA You have proven you can be relied upon to do what I need. TERESA I want to be part of the business. CAMILA Would you die for me? TERESA I'll survive for you. TERESA Oh, my God. CAMILA Did you know he was alive? TERESA No. JAMES Look, you shouldn't have come back for me. But you didn't leave me behind and I won't forget it. MAN Get down! EPIFANIO I'm selling all my business to you, Boaz. Colonel Cortez will remain as your operational partner. ISABELA I'm gonna marry him. I will be an alliance. Our families working together. ALONZO Camila Vargas, you're under arrest. EPIFANIO The DEA agent that arrested you has been suspended, and all charges against you will be dropped. TERESA I'm leaving Camila. I'm starting off on my own. There's a better of way of doing this than the way she does. Without all this killing. JAMES What do you want, Teresa? TERESA Half of the product for El Centro. JAMES The only thing you'll get from me is a bullet. TERESA Ah. JAMES Say you never found me. GUERO You tried to kill her. JAMES I was 15 feet away from her. I never missed a target from that distance in my life. CAMILA CAMILA Don't! EPIFANIO CAMILA There's ten million dollars on the plane. TERESA Get the money and go. MAN The Federales are closing in. We can't stay here. GUERO I'm on my way to the meet spot, but I got a little bit of heat on me. TERESA I love you. GUERO I love you, too. POTE Guero's not here yet. TERESA Let's go. ISABELA Mom? CAMILA Isabela, go to your room. CORTEZ Together we will get our revenge on the person who took Epifanio from us. CAMILA Epifanio was a man of the people. I will capture the wicked criminal who destroyed my family. Su nombre es Teresa Mendoza. TERESA I'm sure you've heard the saying, "The ends justify the means." Most people think that's cruel. MEN TERESA In my case, it's another day at the office. Lucky for me, I have people who handle the means. TERESA And when enemies come, there are two choices. Fight or flee. TERESA Or so we think. In business, deceit is a valuable currency. It pays to stay one step ahead. And a well set trap can be the difference between another sip of Tequila and a barrel of a gun. Call me crazy, but I prefer the Tequila. WAITER How are you doing over here, all by yourself? Is there anything else I can offer you? TERESA Hey, Ivan. I got your message about the password. IVAN Yeah, look. I know this is time sensitive. TERESA Very. I have a shipment coming in tomorrow in the morning. IVAN Which will greatly increase your cash on hand. Yeah. TERESA I'm trying to set up a meeting with a banker, de la Peña. If everything goes well, I'm gonna open an account with him. IVAN Oh, the cryptocurrency guy. That's cool. Here's the thing. I can send you a program that will generate a password, but even the best of them can be hacked. And I should know. TERESA What do you suggest? IVAN You need to make sure his system is secure. You know, I'm even better at this stuff in person, and I'm guessing that Malta is way better than my shitty condo. TERESA Thank you, Ivan. I'm gonna send your payment now, okay? I'll talk to you later. WAITER TERESA WAITER TERESA CAMILA You were a fool to think you could escape me. You stupid, stupid girl. To catch a beast all you need is a little fresh meat. The waiter called us right when he saw you. REPORTER Governor Vargas, you were elected six months ago, in the wake of your husband's murder at the hands of an alleged cartel soldier. CAMILA Teresa Mendoza killed my husband in cold blood. REPORTER Mendoza remains a fugitive, yet the DEA drug charges against you have been dropped. CAMILA Well, the charges were dropped because evidence was planted in my vehicle. REPORTER Allegedly planted. The DEA agent, Alonzo Loya, remains suspended pending further investigation. CAMILA Suspension is not enough for what I endured. I was falsely imprisoned, and I nearly lost my life. Right now I think we should talk about how we're gonna win this war. And I believe the only way to do so is we we have to fight corruption to get away from it's roots. You know, my focus as a governor is to stop the drug flow from my country into the United States. SOLDIERS REPORTER Governor, your critics claim you're simply doing nothing more than riding the coattails of your husband's popularity. In fact, your approval ratings remain far lower than his. CAMILA Well, I have to prove myself. But I serve the people of Sinaloa that elected me. Not the press. I think we're done here. Thank you so much. How are my birds doing? CORTEZ They were shot down on the U.S. side of the border. We gave Boaz our assurances they would be safe. There will be blowback. CAMILA I'll handle Boaz. What about our pending matter in Europe? CORTEZ Teresa's Bolivian product is turning up all over the continent. My sources say it hit Italy first. It was also found in Spain and Malta. I'll dispatch men to investigate. CAMILA Good. I hope she's living in a hole, like a rat. TERESA Hey. POTE You're late for dinner. TERESA I was working. POTE Really? On what? TERESA Skyping with the tech guy in the U.S. I'm heading back home soon. POTE Well, make it fast. This soppa tal-armla is almost ready. TERESA I have no idea what that is. POTE It's a traditional Maltese dish. It's like, uh, menudo minus the pig. TERESA But the pig is the best part. Hold on, I'll call you right back. MAN WOMAN It's Teresa Mendoza. I found her. GUESTS REYNALDO Camila, you look lovely as always. CAMILA Gracias. REYNALDO You remember my niece, Castel. CAMILA Of course. CASTEL Hola. CAMILA Hola. I understand you work for you uncle now. CASTEL I work with him. Yeah. REYNALDO We'll talk business later. I'm here for Isabela and here she is now. ISABELA Padrino. REYNALDO ISABELA Thank you for coming over. CASTEL Felicidades. ISABELA Gracias. Mom? CAMILA Yes. ISABELA Kique's dad is really late. Maybe we could start without him. CAMILA Of course. Kique, join us. KIQUE Gracias. CAMILA Salud. GUESTS Salud. BOAZ GUESTS BOAZ Huh? Huh? CAMILA Salud. BOAZ Salud. GUESTS Salud. CAMILA Gold plated statue. really? BOAZ Solid gold. Got money to burn, right? And powder, too, que no? CORTEZ What happened to your product was unfortunate. Please accept our sincerest apologies. BOAZ Forget your apologies and tell me how the DEA knew about my shipment. CORTEZ They must have surveillance. BOAZ Or a rat, Colonel, a rat. CORTEZ It's General now. BOAZ Oh, sorry, Colonel. General. Who can tell the difference these days anyway? CORTEZ I've already begun an investigation on how the DEA knew the details of our operation. BOAZ You mean my operation. It's my business now. The only reason I'm giving you a cut is because Epifanio was a gentleman. CAMILA You're not giving me anything. I'm receiving a part of the cut because I am the governor. And that's the way it's done. That's the way it's always been done. You see, there's nothing new in our business, my friend. Not even you. I promise, I will find out who's responsible for our loss. And now, for the sake of our children, let's not behave like enemies. Hmm? BOAZ TERESA I was followed. But I lost them. POTE Are you sure? TERESA Yeah. POTE Was it the police or Camila? TERESA I don't know. Either way, we have to go. POTE So we go to the safe house and then what, huh? We leave in the morning? TERESA After our shipment comes in, we'll have too much cash to run with. Oleg promised me a meeting with the banker, Roco de la Peña, who can help us launder it. POTE Roco de la Peña is not the kind of man that'll be happy somebody else making his appointments. TERESA We don't have a choice. Oleg? It's me, Teresa. OLEG A pleasure to hear from you, darling. Is everything in place for a shipment tomorrow? TERESA Yeah, but something came up. The meeting with de la Peña needs to happen now. I've waited long enough. OLEG I told you, Teresa, Roco is a very busy man. TERESA When I gave him my European distribution, you promised an introduction would be made. If you want your shipment tomorrow, you will get me a sit down. OLEG Blackmail? Not your best look, Teresa. TERESA Either I meet him tonight, or you won't get your product. OLEG I'll make a call. REYNALDO Such a lovely home, Camila. But I must say I was surprised that you decided to stay here after losing Epifanio. CAMILA Well, thanks to Boaz, I didn't really lose him, now did I? REYNALDO CASTEL Boaz can be a cruel man, but he's a fine partner for us here in Mexico, right, tío? CAMILA Well, there's another option. I can take over the Mexican business with you as my supplier. I think we can all agree that Boaz is unstable. CASTEL And you think he is just going to hand over the cartel? Your husband sold it to him before he passed away, he's a legitimate owner. CAMILA I'm aware. General Cortez is willing to use his troops against Boaz's soldiers. And with my backing as a governor, I'm confident we will prevail. REYNALDO Camila, when my wife wanted to return to work after the birth of our first child, I allowed it. But she soon realized that her true calling as a mother was not on the street, it was at home. Serving her family. CAMILA Your wife was a wonderful woman. But my path is different. CASTEL Look, it's very simple. If you move against Boaz without our permission, we will not only strike against you, but we will find a different cartel to deal with. REYNALDO If Epifanio was still here, he would tell you to relax. Don't worry about business. Instead, enjoy the fruits of your womanhood. CAMILA To womanhood. REYNALDO To womanhood. CASTEL To womanhood. POTE You know what, Teresita? Sometimes I miss Mexico. TERESA There's Oleg. Where's de la Peña? OLEG In his inner sanctum. He owns this nightclub. Along with half of Malta. He calls the shots. TERESA Are you joining us? OLEG Oh, I've done my part with Roco. The fate of tonight's meeting is entirely in your hands now. TERESA What is this? OLEG Roco's big on first impressions. You'll see. ROCO Hola, Teresa. Welcome to my world. Do you like your song, Teresa? I picked it specifically for you. The song is about poor little Moses. Life-threatened, plucked from the jaws of death by his enemies. Raised up among his oppressors, only to bring ruin upon them. Does this still sound familiar to you? I've discovered quite a bit about you, Teresa. I'm curious how confident you are with what I might have found. Last chance. And she emerges from the darkness just like a poem. TERESA You had me followed. What is this? POTE Hey-hey-hey, hey, hey, I've never seen a pretty face stop a bullet before. ROCO Enough. You're scaring Yvette. You're embarrassing yourself, fat man. Yes, you've proven what big balls you have, now put that back in your pocket before I eat them. TERESA Pote, it's all right. ROCO Pote, it's all right. Wow. I like that. How much? I will pay you $1 million to borrow him for a night. TERESA Let's go. This is a waste of time. ROCO Teresa, if you walk out that door, you will never see me again. TERESA Give me a reason to stay. ROCO Unlike most men in my line of work, I prefer to do business with women. They are more trustworthy, more compassionate, more loyal. And with the proper training, they can be physically equal to a man. However. When a woman tries to be a man, she becomes totally useless. When she puts business before love. When she resorts to betrayal. TERESA Your information is wrong. I didn't betray anyone. Not even Camila Vargas. ROCO Then you tell me why you should stay. TERESA You deal in cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum. ROCO Your choice. All untraceable. And for all my magic tricks, I charge five percent. TERESA You charged the Saudis three percent for the same process last year. ROCO Someone's been Chatty Cathy, Chatty Cathy, Chatty Cathy. Beggars can't be choosers. TERESA I'll need proof. ROCO Of course. TERESA At four percent. ROCO Five. TERESA Six months ago, my market share of European distribution was zero. Today, I'm moving 30 kilos a week. Do you want to wait until I've doubled that to negotiate with me? ROCO Four point it is. But I also know your problem with incoming shipment from Bolivia may render all this haggling irrelevant. TERESA Oleg will get his shipment. And your bank will get my holdings. ROCO Good. Bravo. TERESA Thank you. ROCO Hmm. Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. No. No good-bye kiss, nothing? TERESA Come on, Pote, let's go. POTE Any time, cabrón. Any time. POTE What does he mean there's a problem with the shipment? TERESA I don't know. I need to call George. But not here. TERESA I want to be part of the business. Whatever you need. EPIFANIO Let's be a family before the world tries to tear us apart again. CORTEZ Malta. The Italians are there, Russians, Libyans. CAMILA It's Casablanca with cocaine. A place where a Mexicana and her punching bag can do their dirty deeds unnoticed. CORTEZ The authorities took notice of a Somali crew landing at a port in Valletta last month. CAMILA King George used the Somalians. It seems Teresa's making inroads in Europe. We have to stop her. Before her product reaches the Mexican market. CORTEZ I take it your meeting with Don Reynaldo went well? CAMILA No. He's still supporting Boaz and wants me to be a housewife. CORTEZ Hmm. CAMILA But it's his niece that's the trouble. CORTEZ We need their permission to move on Boaz. I'm happy to speak with Reynaldo myself of you'd like. Man to man. CAMILA Reynaldo's not your concern. I am. I want you focused on Teresa. Put all your sicarios on the ground in Valletta. No more cat and mouse, General. I want blood. GEORGE Your parries are for shit, You call yourself a pirate? Maybe we should switch to lightsabers. Give you a fighting chance. That's Teresa. God damn it! That's my favorite hand! Ow. You cheating. Hey, Maltese Falcon, how you flying? Who's pecking who, tell me everything. TERESA Is there a problem with our shipment tomorrow, George? GEORGE No problem, darlin'. My guy at the port got transferred last minute, but my minions assure me, everything's going to be golden by morning. TERESA How can I trust a minion to handle such important business? GEORGE 'Cause as large and far reaching as my hands are, I only got two of 'em. The fine art of delegating is a prerequisite to power, principesa. TERESA I'll handle it myself. GEORGE I got to go on the record and say that is seriously unwise, darling. TERESA It's my operation, my shipment. I'll make the decisions. GEORGE I ain't gonna argue with that. The new guy at the port, his name is Falcone. He's the easy kind. Just remember what Cyndi Lauper said money changes everything. Hug Chewy for me. POTE George is right. Shouldn't get your hands dirty with this. I can handle the bribe by myself. TERESA You don't handle numbers or negotiating. I do. POTE Who said anything about negotiating? TERESA In six months, we doubled the cash we left Mexico with. We've made this. If bribing this port official goes bad, we might as well just burn all of it. POTE Camila didn't do her dirty work. TERESA Yeah. I don't want to do business like her. She treats life cheaply. POTE If you fall, we all go down, Teresita. It's just the way it works. TERESA I don't know any other way for it to work. POTE I was just offering. Okay, then. Then we do this. Take it. ISABELA Okay. Close your eyes. CAMILA They're closed. ISABELA Mom, no they're not. I can see you. CAMILA Okay. ISABELA What do you think? CAMILA You look beautiful. ISABELA Mom. CAMILA Yes? ISABELA Can I ask you something? CAMILA Of course. ISABELA What were you talking to Boaz about at the party? And please don't treat me like a child. I can handle it. CAMILA Colonel Cortez and I are restructuring our agreement with Boaz. Putting our house in order. This business and the wealth it generates, one day may fall to you to handle. ISABELA Not if Cortez steals it from you first. I don't know how you can trust him after all he's done. CAMILA I don't. I need him. For the business. And he's helping me search for Teresa. ISABELA Well I hope he finds her soon. I want that bitch dead just as much as you do. CAMILA Isabela, don't talk like that. ISABELA It's because of her that papi won't be here when I get married. I always thought he'd walk me down the aisle. CAMILA He would have been happy for you. ISABELA I know. I just miss him so much. CAMILA Yeah. Me, too. TERESA Meet us at the port. I love you. GUERO I love you too. POTE George's man is late. TERESA If we don't bribe the port official tonight, we don't get our shipment tomorrow. POTE Always the hard way. TERESA I never asked you, you never told me. Do you have a wife? A family? Is there anyone? POTE I'm not always alone. TERESA Is that enough for you? POTE I was married once. Didn't work out. TERESA Never told me you had a wife. POTE Do you tell me about all the men in your life? TERESA What about kids? Is there a little Potemkin out there somewhere? POTE No. I left her before that happened. TERESA Why? POTE 'Cause love is not for everyone. TERESA There he is. TERESA You Falcon? You're late. FALCON I thought I was being followed. I had to double back. POTE Take your hands out of your pocket. He's clean. FALCON Did you bring the money? POTE Police can be watching. We give him the money, we could get arrested. TERESA We walk away now, the shipment is still coming. We have no deal. POTE So what you want to do? TERESA We go and I will take him with us. POTE Walk. FALCON Hey. Hey, what's happening? What is this? POTE Run, run! Run! Run! Did you bring them? FALCON No, no, no. COP Hands in the air! POTE Did you bring them? FALCON No! I said no! COP Throw your weapons down and come out with your hands in the air. POTE I'm gonna fire again. Get behind the wheel, you step on the gas and don't look back. You understand? TERESA That's not happening. This doesn't make sense. If this were a bust, there would be an army out there. Come here. POTE What are you doing? TERESA I'm going to find out what they want. Drop your weapons. Do it! Now. COP All right. All right, take it easy. TERESA You're not here to make an arrest. You have no backup. What do you want? COP We're here for our cut. We've been following Agent Falcon since his transfer. We knew there'd be a bribe attempt. POTE They say Mexico's corrupt. COP 2 It's only fair, no? Or do you want to do it the hard way? POTE He say he wanted to get paid, so I paid him. COP Please, this was a mistake. TERESA What's your name? DANIELA Daniela. Spiteri. TERESA You have two choices, Daniela. You can die a hero tonight, or live to help us with our shipment in the morning. DANIELA Sign the paperwork. Let them through. POTE You almost got yourself killed last night. I can spot a dirty cop as good as you can. TERESA We got the shipment through. And now we have two Port cops working for us. We're in an even stronger position now. POTE It worked this time. How 'bout next time, huh? You cannot build an empire all on your own, Teresita. CORTEZ Bueno. HUMMER General. Soy yo, Hummer. CORTEZ How did you locate her? HUMMER CORTEZ What mistake was that? HUMMER CORTEZ Patience, Hummer. Take care where you strike. Señora Vargas would like to avoid the authorities. HUMMER CAMILA Agent Loya. ALONZO Governor. You're looking well. CAMILA You did good with the drugs. Shall we get on to business? ALONZO Absolutely. ALONZO I just handed you a 20 kilo bust on a platter, and you're telling me that isn't enough. VALERIE Whoever you're getting this intel from, it isn't safe. Maybe it's time to let this go. Find something else. ALONZO There is nothing else. ALONZO When you reached out to me two months ago, I thought this was a crazy idea. CAMILA What? For a Mexican governor to help bring down a narco? That's why I was elected. ALONZO You want Boaz Jimenez out of your hair. CAMILA You know there's people in my state that have doubts about my competence. There are those who think that a woman isn't worthy to fill her husband's shoes. You deliver Boaz to your superiors and you will be reinstated. And my approval ratings will soar. It works well for both of us. ALONZO Why'd you choose to come to me, Camila? It was a risk. CAMILA There is no gain without risk. And despite the fact that we've been adversaries, I believe you are a decent man, Alonzo. I just gambled on you being a pragmatic one too. ALONZO You told Cortez about our arrangement yet? CAMILA He knows I've been linking information to someone inside the DEA. And that's all he needs to know about this. Now, to you. In getting your badge back. ALONZO Governor Vargas. CAMILA Salud. Now, I want Boaz and the Colombians. BOAZ I got some serious judging to do. CORTEZ I thought the pageant that you were sponsoring was next week. BOAZ It is. I'm picking the winner tonight. CORTEZ We have important business to discuss my friend. BOAZ Tell Camila she'll have to wait. CORTEZ There's no need to involve the Governor. This business is between the two of us. BOAZ CORTEZ Very good. BOAZ PSYCHIC TERESA Don't understand, I'm sorry. PSYCHIC TERESA Pick one. PSYCHIC TERESA Grazie. Grazie. POTE Teresa, where are you? TERESA Taking some time for myself. But just because I'm alone, it doesn't mean you have to be too. POTE Are you saying what I think you're saying? TERESA Enjoy your time off, Pote. I'll see you soon, okay? Bye. GUERO Let's leave Culiacán. I'll fly anywhere you want to go. Anywhere in the world. TERESA I love you. THE QUEEN The Hermit. What did you expect? It's the price you pay. But it won't stop your enemies from coming for you. CITIZENS JAMES Get in the car. Now! Teresa, now! Get down.