ALONZO BANK_TELLER BOAZ CAMILA CHILD CORTEZ DANCE_PARTNER DANCE_TEACHER DRIVER GEORGE ISABELA JAMES MAN NARRATOR PILOT POTE ROCO SICARIO SMUGGLER TERESA THE_QUEEN WOMANS_VOICE YVETTE NARRATOR Previously on Queen of the South. JAMES Get in the car! Now! JAMES The last time we met, you offered me a partnership. TERESA and you tried to kill me. JAMES If I really wanted to kill you, you'd be dead. You know that. CAMILA Teresa was a stray mutt when I met her. Let her die in the cold with the other dogs. CAMILA What does a girl like you have to offer me? TERESA The book your husband's been after. TERESA You deal in cryptocurrencies. ROCO When it comes to making money disappear, I'm as close to perfection as our world allowed us. CORTEZ Valletta, Malta. Authorities took notice of a Somali crew landing at a port in Valletta last month. CAMILA King George uses Somalis. GEORGE You could be my Pocahontas, or maybe I'll be your Pocahontas. POTE How did you get away? TERESA James. POTE Where is he, now? TERESA In the trunk. POTE Attagirl. I'm leaving now. SICARIO SICARIO CAMILA And there was only ever one way for this to end for you. ROCO POTE MAN TERESA Welcome back. POTE How long have I been out? TERESA Shh. Hey. POTE How long? TERESA Two days. POTE TERESA The doctor said to keep the bandage on. He said you might need surgery. POTE Yeah I want to find those pendejos and make them pay. JAMES Might be hard. They're both dead. POTE TERESA Shh. He's with us, now. POTE TERESA I need you to trust me, okay? You need to rest and get your strength back. POTE Teresita. TERESA You're no use to me broken. POTE You listen to me, pendejo. You betray us again, and I will carve you like a freaking. Do you understand?! TERESA Hey. Lay down. POTE TERESA Listen to me. We have an important meeting. Roco's gonna show us his banking system. JAMES Cryptocurrency. You sure you can trust him? TERESA He saved our lives, but I'm not gonna trust him, until he prove his system works. JAMES You want to get a proof-of-concept. TERESA Yeah. POTE How much are you planning to give the ? TERESA If his system checks out, I'll put $20 million with his bank. The rest I'll keep liquid. JAMES Smart. Won't be tied down in Malta. TERESA Yeah. that way we can operate anywhere in the world. POTE Teresita, "we"? TERESA Just get some rest, okay? I'll be back soon. CAMILA That pompous bastard. He thinks he can keep Teresa from me. I want you to go to Malta, General. Tear her from his fingers. CORTEZ Roco de la Peña is a powerful and dangerous man. It would be folly to pick a fight with him in his own backyard. CAMILA You scared of a instead of me? CORTEZ You don't need more enemies at this moment. Let de la Peña grow bored with her. Right now, you must stay focused on the real enemy. Boaz Jimenez must be your first concern. CAMILA I decide who my real enemy is, not you. Boaz is just a stupid bull. CORTEZ But he is a bull with a spear in his side, and he is in the ring with you. Do not turn your back to him. CAMILA If you don't help me, I'll find someone who will. CORTEZ Revenge is like any drug, it can please you or it can rule you. Obsession will kill logic when you need it most. CAMILA Teresa's just a stray dog, Generál. It's time we put her down. TERESA Most money launderers use businesses to clean their clients' cash--hotels, restaurants, retail. Roco de la Peña uses the Internet. He claims it's safe. JAMES We'll see. TERESA Your off-line servers are here? ROCO Uh, downstairs in my vault. Impenetrable. JAMES If the servers overheat, we could lose everything. What if the cooling system fails. ROCO I have a contingency. All rooms are individually vacuum sealed, pulling all oxygen out within seconds instantly extinguishing any threat. ROCO Let's start with your current methods, which frankly are fraught with risk. For example, the payments to your Bolivian supplier. Though you get major style points for your use of Somali pirates, there are some glaring vulnerabilities in your system that can result in the loss of your assets. Let's say you want to deposit. TERESA $3 million. ROCO into my account, and I purchase in-which coin do you prefer? TERESA Etherium and Bitcoin have too much movement. I'm thinking Tirium. ROCO Fair enough. Fair enough. So, I deposit your coins into your bank account. Right now, your $3 million in Tirium is broken up into tiny pieces of digital code and spread through thousands of accounts, rendering it untraceable. TERESA What if I'd like to make a withdrawal? ROCO You can withdraw cash but I prefer carrying my millions in one hand. TERESA So, all my money will be in the hard drive. ROCO Yes, and only you will be able to access it with a 54-character signature. Please, type it now. Now, enter the amount you wish to send to your supplier. Hit send, and watch my magic work. TERESA Yeah? CHILD Teresa Mendoza, TERESA My supplier just got his payment. ROCO It's safer, faster, quicker, better. Don't you wish cocaine could be delivered digitally? TERESA We have a deal. ROCO Welcome to the new world, Teresa. POTE The $20 million has been deposit. You made something here, Teresita. You should be proud. TERESA Thank you. Would you like a drink? POTE I'm not thirsty. JAMES He'll come around. TERESA Salud. MAN Congratulations, Teresa. I see bright things in your future. Salud. ROCO You are gonna be huge in Europe, and this is just the beginning. Just don't ever screw me, hmm? I do the screwing in my world, okay? TERESA Is she okay? ROCO Yeah, she's a rare Russian who can't handle her liquor. Ugh. Bring me another girl. YVETTE MAN Salud. TERESA Ladies' room. Excuse me. YVETTE TERESA Yvette! Yvette. YVETTE Help me. Please. We're dying. TERESA You're back. Did he hurt you? YVETTE He cuts all of us. He gets off on it. He keeps us like slaves. Please! TERESA Come on. Hey. We don't have much time. I have to go. How many of you are here? YVETTE 10. He does bad things to us, and then he give us drugs to make it better. If they find you here... Please, nevermind. I don't know what I say. Just go. TERESA No, it's okay. It's okay. Listen to me. I need you to trust me, okay? Are all the girls kept here? YVETTE For now. Tomorrow they send us away. TERESA Tomorrow? How? YVETTE We go on ship. Promise me you'll help us. Please! JAMES Teresa? What's wrong? ALONZO Malta authorities won't go near Teresa with de la Peña protecting her. CAMILA You're holding out on me. ALONZO I'm doing everything in my power. CAMILA The D.A.'s operating from the embassy in Malta. All I'm asking is to give them Teresa, so she can be extradited back to Mexico. ALONZO Teresa saved your life for that club. That don't mean nothing to you? CAMILA don't fool yourself. I was the only thing keeping her alive. She was saving herself. ALONZO I won't help you kill anyone. CAMILA All I'm asking you is to have her sent back to the country where her crime was committed. Alonzo. You're a good man. You want her in jail? So do I. I want her to rot.slowly. But I don't have to bring her in myself. That can be you. That should be you. All I want is to be certain, smile as I hear how lonely and sad and pathetic her life is as often as I want. That means Teresa has to come back to Mexico. ALONZO I'm listening. CAMILA Good. This book.brought Teresa into my life, and now it's gonna help me get rid of her. Teresa's operation has a weakness. WOMANS VOICE TERESA JAMES You have something to say? POTE Teresita, things happen. This business is ugly for girls. You have to. JAMES Girls have always been currency with the cartel. We can save them, but it won't change that. POTE Don't you ever interrupt me again, cabrón. Even if we save the girls that Roco has now, there's more where that come from. It would never end. JAMES Not to mention you just gave him most of the money. We can back away from the deal, but slowly--with caution. TERESA It's nice to see you two agree on something. POTE Just think about it. TERESA You once told me I was better than Camila, because I had a heart. This is what that looks like. POTE It took us six months to build what we have here in Malta. You burn Roco, and you burn it all. JAMES If you burn Europe, you're running out of continents. TERESA We agreed to do business in a different way. JAMES But I don't think this is about business. TERESA That girl was me when you met me. I know what it's like to be a slave to people who don't give a shit whether you live or die. GEORGE Yo ! The king has arrived! POTE Ah, Teresa. GEORGE Can I get an "amen"?! Where my dawgs at?! Oh, there he is! Baby Chapo, welcome back from being a dipstick. JAMES Hmm. GEORGE What the shit happened to you?! You try to hump a real wookie? TERESA George. GEORGE Right. Plan time. TERESA So, Yvette's information was correct? GEORGE Yep. There's a cargo ship owned by one of Roco's subsidiaries leaving Port Sengale today. Now, it'll have less guards than at the club. Be safer to get the girls out there. JAMES Why would he ship them? Why not just fly them? TERESA He makes twice the money on them this way. He gets paid once for the trip-when the crew uses them--then again when they get to the destination. GEORGE That's despicable! Bastards like Roco ruin the good name of smugglers. Now, my men and I will take out the guards right here once the girls are on the move. TERESA Then we need to get out of Malta. GEORGE Well, as we speak, my boys are parking our escape vessel on the other side of the port. Now, we'll load her up, but the second this shit goes belly-up. Whoa. You got to skedaddle with a fury. JAMES If Rocco knows you're involved, you lose the $20 million you just gave him. TERESA That's why we need to get the money out of the bank, first. GEORGE You're putting yourself in a whole lot of danger just to keep your conscience clean. TERESA Is that any worse than doing it for the money? POTE So we're robbing a bank? TERESA We're not robbing a bank. POTE Are we bringing guns? TERESA Yeah. Where are you going? POTE I'm gonna go not get a sandwich. MAN GEORGE I ain't going nowhere without the snake. We're facing off with a Maltese billionaire. Lord knows what that freak's packing. Don't forget the egg case. How you holding up, darlin'-on the real? TERESA I'm fine. GEORGE Wonder Twins giving you grief? Pulal! Hit that. TERESA Pote and James will do what needs to be done. GEORGE No doubt. But for a man who ain't seen below that mustache since he was nine, he can get pretty lippy. No, he's just scared for you is all. Psychopaths can be unpredictable-kind of like courageous women. TERESA I'm not being brave. If there was another way to do this, I would. Your men seem loyal. GEORGE Yeah, they know where their bread's buttered. TERESA So, it's just for the money? GEORGE No. Them boys are special. Been through a lot together, but I'm always straight with them-like I got to be with you right now. TERESA What are you talking about? GEORGE I did a run for Roco, years back, and I didn't want to say anything in the house, but I think it's important you know who you're clashing horns with. GEORGE Why didn't you tell me? GEORGE I-It don't.affect the why you're doing what you're doing, but it-it might just affect the if. You hearing me? TERESA Yeah, I'm listening. GEORGE Roco came up as an enforcer in the Galician mafia--dark reputation even back then. I smuggled a payload of Kalashnikovs to this Afghani rabble-rousers they're trying to get to strike against one of their competitors. Roco had their families crucified-women, kids. Dude's got a thing for blood. Now, he pass himself off as some kind of techno-wizard, but the dude ain't changed. TERESA You understand why I can't leave them behind? GEORGE I do. I get it. And we're all here for you. You just need to understand what you're up against. The man's a goddamn spider. You're walking right out into his web. Close her up. Let's go. DANCE TEACHER DANCE PARTNER DANCE TEACHER ISABELA Mom, will you show us? My mom studied to be a dancer when she was my age. DANCE TEACHER I didn't know that. ISABELA How about it, Generál? Will you help my mother show us how it's done? CORTEZ CAMILA Very light on your feet, General. I'm impressed. CORTEZ You're the one with the gifts, jefa. GEORGE We're in position, now. TERESA Roco's still inside the bank. As soon as he leaves, we're going in. GEORGE Got our guy at the port on lookout. He's gonna call me when Roco's guys bring the ladies for transport. The second you all get your hands on the moneys, me and my boys are gonna snatch up some honeys. TERESA Did you get everything from the safehouse? GEORGE Like y'all were never there. We got the getaway boat all loaded up. Got your money from the safehouse in there, and all of Chuy's pots and pans. TERESA Thank you, George. As soon as you're out, I'll let you know. JAMES Emptying your account's gonna raise some flags. TERESA I'm gonna leave $1 million in the account. JAMES $1 million for 10 girls? TERESA They're worth it. Okay, let's go. BANK TELLER Miss Mendoza, how may I help you? TERESA I would like to make a withdrawal, please. BANK TELLER Of course. How much are you looking to withdraw today? TERESA $19 million. BANK TELLER Is there a reason that you wish to withdraw such a large s. TERESA Just some business. BANK TELLER Yes, of course. Um, unfortunately your cash is no longer at this location. You'll need to wait 24. TERESA I'll take the hard drive. BANK TELLER Yes. If you'll give me a moment. Excuse me. TERESA Sure. POTE What now? JAMES This is where we find out if we have to rob a bank or not. TERESA We're not robbing a bank. ROCO What is it? BANK TELLER Sir. Teresa Mendoza is looking to withdraw almost the entire sum of her account onto a hard drive. ROCO How much is she leaving in her account? BANK TELLER $1 million. ROCO Ah, she's testing us. Such brazen theatrics. I'll have to remember to cure her of that. Give her the hard drive. BANK TELLER Miss Mendoza, if you'll please accompany me to the vault-alone. TERESA I'm sorry. I need to get this. Just one minute. Yeah? GEORGE Bad news. They're moving the girls early-as in right now. TERESA I don't have what we came for, yet. GEORGE Shit, man. Maybe we need to hit the ejector button on this one, T. There ain't no shortage of girls in other places need saving. POTE Don't do it. GEORGE It's now or never, but I got to seriously advise against being in a sealable building when this shit goes down. TERESA Get the girls. CAMILA Why would you do that, push me towards a man you don't trust? ISABELA You said we need him. If keeping Cortez close helps our family, the closer the better. CAMILA Dangerous men, Isabella, are not to be toyed with. You need to learn discretion. ISABELA So teach me. BOAZ The heroin is selling like a Christmas miracle. I'd like to keep our arrangement. CORTEZ Camila? The Colombians? BOAZ Ah, what do they say? "Ignorance is bliss." I won't tell if you don't. CAMILA You two look like old pals. No one would think that one tried to burn the other one alive. BOAZ Men don't hold grudges. Besides, some men have thicker skin than others. CAMILA To what do we owe the pleasure? BOAZ I'm here to take Kike with me on a business meeting. Our favorite Colombians are in town, but I guess you already knew that. Excuse me, governor. CORTEZ They're meeting with the Colombians? CAMILA How did that get arranged? CORTEZ I was just asking myself the same question. BANK TELLER I'm sorry Miss Mendoza. We don't allow weapons inside the vault. If you don't mind. TERESA Sure. BANK TELLER Follow me. Please enter your signature here. you have the whole thing memorized. I'm quite impressed. It's only amateurs that need to write it down. There. The funds are uploading to the hard drive. JAMES You should know my intentions with Teresa. They're good. POTE Are you proposing? I'm not her father. JAMES I get it. If things were reversed. POTE It wouldn't be. JAMES All right. Cut the bullshit. I never betrayed you or Teresa. I was loyal to Camila. It doesn't even matter if you think I should be here or not. Teresa trusts me, and that should be enough for you. POTE My brother kept a weasel as a pet when we were niños. Found it as a baby. Gave it the bottle. Slept with it like it was a stuffed animal. My parents trusted the weasel with my brother like it was a dog. One night, when my brother was sleeping, the weasel clawed out one of his eyes and ate it. JAMES Sad ending. POTE Especially for the weasel. JAMES Good talk. GEORGE All right. On the count of three we're gonna give 'em the ol' royal Texas bum rush. You ready boys? SMUGGLER Yes, my king. GEORGE All right. Now, remember, pirate's only as good as his Shanghai. One, two, three, go, bitches! ROCO What? Attacked by who at the docks? Why would African guerilla fighters..? We need to get back to the bank, now! Come on, girls! POTE I knew we were gonna rob a bank. BANK TELLER Here you go. TERESA Thank you. What was that? BANK TELLER I'm not sure. TERESA What are you doing? BANK TELLER Give me the hard drive. TERESA I have no idea what's going on out there. BANK TELLER Then why do you look so nervous? TERESA Why would I steal my own money? BANK TELLER I'll let Mr. de la Peña ask you that question when he returns. Now, give me the hard drive. TERESA No. JAMES Teresa's in the vault! POTE We need to get her out! Ah! JAMES What the hell are you doing? JAMES There's too many of them. We need to turn on the vacuum seal. POTE Not yet. We got to get her out of the vault first. JAMES If she walks out into these guards, she's dead. POTE How is she supposed to breathe? JAMES The vault still has air. We just need to get her out of there alive. POTE Ah! JAMES They're starting to drop. GEORGE No one puts Pulal in the corner! SMUGGLER Thank you, my King. I had him. GEORGE I know you did! I just got a little greedy is all. I didn't want you to outshine me in front of the girls. You know what I'm saying? Ladies, I know what you're thinking. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, right? Well, this is what a Teresa Mendoza rescue looks like. No time to get picky. YVETTE Teresa sent you? Where is she? GEORGE She's a little preoccupied at the moment. JAMES The seal's broken. Shit, there's one more guard. POTE Teresa, no! JAMES Go! POTE Go! TERESA We're on our way. GEORGE Don't come here. I got the girls, but our getaway ship just got seized. What now? TERESA The police got in our ship. We need to find another way out of Malta. POTE Roco controls the local police. JAMES There's an airfield about nine kilometers away. I scouted it as backup. TERESA George, I'm gonna send you the address. See you in a few, okay? Bring the girls there. GEORGE You got a bird in that nest? TERESA Not yet. CAMILA Yes. ALONZO King George's ship has been seized at a port in Malta. D.A. tracked his ship using the whole ID number from the page you gave me. CAMILA And Teresa? ALONZO Malta police confiscated $7 million in cash, but no Teresa. CAMILA How did she escape? ALONZO There was a shootout. Malta authorities found some of Roco de la Peña's guards dead.and some Somalis. ROCO CAMILA TERESA Are you the pilot of this plane? PILOT You're not allowed back here. TERESA We'll give you $200,000 to get us in the air in less than five minutes. POTE And there's always another way. JAMES I'd take the money. POTE Go. GEORGE I call window seat, bitches! TERESA I wasn't sure you would make it. GEORGE I always make it. DRIVER GEORGE Come on, girls! Allow to escort you all to getaway vessel number two. Okay, let's go. TERESA You're bleeding. You okay? YVETTE Yeah. Roco put tracking devices inside us. We all broke them on the way here I just hope we got them out in time. I know what you gave up for us. Most wouldn't make this choice. TERESA It wasn't a choice we made. Come on. Let's go. YVETTE Thank you. TERESA Come on. JAMES We got company. TERESA Get the plane ready. POTE Start it up! GEORGE Baby Chapo, give me some covering fire! Pulal, give me the snake! Cross one off the bucket list. POTE You know you're crazy, right? GEORGE You're the one who tried to hump a real wookie. POTE James, now! ROCO Oh, my God, Teresa. You could have been amazing, and now you're all alone fleeing for your life while Europe burns down behind you. CAMILA DRIVER ROCO How does it feel, Teresa, to know that you were so close to greatness and you just let it slip through your fingers? Hmm? Why, Teresa? TERESA Some things aren't for sale. ROCO Oh, my God. I didn't know I was dealing with a child. All of those girls will be replaced tomorrow. The shipment is already on it's way. As for you. If I ever see you again, you're gonna be screaming. But anyway. Good luck. I really think you're gonna need it. CAMILA THE QUEEN You saved your soul today. Was it worth it?