ANGEL BOAZ CATHERINE CHICHO DAVIS DEVON_FINCH FEMALE_DETECTIVE FEMALE_REPORTER GAMBLE GEORGE HITMAN_1 HITMAN_2 HITMAN_3 HITMAN_4 HITMEN JAMES JAVIER JOEL_BOUCHER JUDGE_CECIL KELLY_ANNE MALE_BARTENDER_1 MALE_RAPPER_1 MARCEL OKSANA PEOPLE_AT_POLICE_STATION PEOPLE_IN_RESTAURANT PEOPLE_ON_STREET POLANCO POTE RANDALL TERESA TONY TERESA Previously on Queen of the South... TERESA Thirty thousand square feet of commercial property. Our future. POTE You want to build a mall? TERESA I want us to own legal businesses. If we make more money, we can buy more real estate. Then, we won't have to work with people like Castel and Boaz who even murder their own family. JUDGE CECIL I've known Mr. Boucher here for many years. JOEL BOUCHER TERESA What do you want for this? JUDGE CECIL I want the money you offered Boucher. Consider it an operating tax. This is my town. KELLY ANNE You're family to me. I love you. I do. TERESA I trusted you. TERESA You were right. It's her. She's the mole. KELLY ANNE POTE KELLY ANNE Pote? TONY Pote? KELLY ANNE POTE Tony. TONY No. What are you doing? She's with me. KELLY ANNE POTE You're supposed to be dead. KELLY ANNE I know, I know. Please let me explain. POTE Why did he let you live? KELLY ANNE I don't know. POTE Without you, I wouldn't be here. KELLY ANNE Likewise. TERESA How do you feel about Miami? BOAZ What's not to like? TERESA I would like you to run it. JAVIER JUDGE CECIL René was like a son to me. Whoever did this will pay. JAVIER I killed René. The judge's nephew. JUDGE CECIL I'm open to mendin' fences once you hand your man over to me. TERESA If you trusted me, I could have protected you but now I can't. JAVIER RANDALL JUDGE CECIL Randall! DAVIS MARCEL Judge is down but he's not out. TERESA If he loses his power, he's just a man. JUDGE CECIL My son. Son. God, what have I done? JAMES Phoenix is ours. JAMES JAMES This is where I get off. TERESA Gonna miss you. DEVON FINCH Izzy will be safe as long as she's useful to us. You on the other hand, you're a liability. You come with us, so you won't be able to drag her down with you. GEORGE We just took over Miami. Why move so fast with the Russians? TERESA If we expand with Kotsya as our partner, we will be seen as strong. OKSANA You have a good reputation Teresa Mendoza. TERESA I'd be happy to have a new partner. OKSANA Me too. TERESA So we're in business with Kotsya? OKSANA For better or for worse. TONY I'm driving? TERESA It's your car. TERESA Tony! MARCEL Judge came by my office today. Teresa, he wants you dead. I just want you to know. I'm all in. TERESA Lafayette killed Tony. POTE JAMES TERESA George, call a doctor. JAMES TERESA James! What happened to you? JAMES They're coming for you. TERESA TERESA TERESA There was a time when I was always running for my life. Being chased. Barely surviving. Now, I’m the one who does the hunting. PEOPLE ON STREET TERESA You think you’re safe because you’re on top of the world and you’re no longer the prey. Then one day, you realize there’s a bigger, badder wolf lurking around the corner. And you will have to ask yourself, will you go back to running... Being chased... Barely surviving? TERESA I know my answer. What’s yours? PEOPLE AT POLICE STATION JUDGE CECIL I heard a commotion out in my greenhouse. FEMALE DETECTIVE And about what time was that? JUDGE CECIL I don’t know. I'd, I'd say around five. It was-It was still dark out. I went to investigate and came upon my son struggling with an intruder. I rushed back to the house to get my gun but. It wasn’t in my safe. I forgot I had put it in my desk drawer. By the time I returned, it was too late. The intruder. Had killed Davis. And fled. FEMALE DETECTIVE Your Honor, the officers on the scene didn’t find any evidence of forced entry. We took a look at your security systems and seems your cameras malfunctioned on the day of. Something's not adding up. FEMALE DETECTIVE Your wife died under similar circumstances. And your son had a history of being institutionalized. PEOPLE AT POLICE STATION JUDGE CECIL I will not allow you to speak about my family this way! What in God’s name are you alleging, Detective? FEMALE DETECTIVE This is not an allegation. I’m simply stating a fact. Your son’s wounds were self-inflicted. GAMBLE Oh, when did you get certified as a medical examiner, Detective? FEMALE DETECTIVE Captain Gamble, I didn’t realize you were assigned to the case. GAMBLE Answer the question. FEMALE DETECTIVE I spoke with the medical examiner this morning. GAMBLE Hmm... Well, I just came from her office. She’s revised her statement. JUDGE CECIL Eli, thank you for comin'. GAMBLE I’m sorry for your loss, Judge. How are you holdin' up? JUDGE CECIL "To weep is to make less the depth of grief." GAMBLE Judge Lafayette is the sole witness to his son’s murder. I'd advise you to adjust your tone, Detective. FEMALE DETECTIVE I’m sorry, Your Honor. I was just doing my due diligence. JUDGE CECIL Of course. GAMBLE All right, Cecil, you don’t have to worry now. I’ll be overseeing this investigation from here on out. Now, where were you? FEMALE DETECTIVE Judge Lafayette witnessed his son struggling with an intruder. GAMBLE So what are you waiting for? Let’s get a BOLO out. You get a good look at him, Cecil? JUDGE CECIL Oh, I most certainly did. KELLY ANNE Hey, Teresa. You’ve gotta come see this. Come on. FEMALE REPORTER To recap, there is a manhunt underway for a suspect in last night’s alleged murder of Davis Lafayette, son of Honorable Judge Cecil Lafayette. The suspect is the reputed head of a New Orleans crime syndicate, known to local law enforcement as Marcel William Dumas. Authorities warn that he is considered armed and dangerous. TERESA Marcel isn’t answering. KELLY ANNE You think the cops already picked him up? POTE Not yet. He went underground and no one knows where. TERESA We need to find him before Lafayette does. POTE Oh, we are busy protecting ourselves. TERESA He's our ally. We need to find him. KELLY ANNE This doesn't make any sense. Why would the Judge want to frame Dumas? TERESA Because Dumas chose me over him. He feels betrayed that's why he’s going after him. GEORGE Found this in James’s car. POTE Phone tracker? GEORGE And a jammer. KELLY ANNE What is James doing with all this stuff? GEORGE Maybe he’s the one comin' after us. JAMES Where am I? TERESA You’re in a safe house. We had a doctor come here to operate on you. The bullet didn’t hit any vital organs. You're lucky. JAMES TERESA Well, you are. You should be back on your feet in a couple of days. GEORGE Before you start drawing any bubble baths and making PB and Js, I got a few questions for you, double-oh-seven. JAMES I can explain. POTE First thing’s first, who’s coming after Teresa? JAMES I don’t know who they are. Just that you’ve been targeted. I was working with Devon Finch. TERESA How could you go back to him after everything he’s done? JAMES I had no choice. If I didn't pay off the debt, he’d keep coming. So, I made a deal. As long as I worked with him, he'd stay away from your organization. You’d be safe. POTE Safe? The last time Teresa saw Finch, he bombed the Santo’s compound almost killing her. TERESA Devon is a CIA agent. JAMES No. Technically, he’s a contractor for the agency. TERESA Do you work for him? JAMES He finally cut me loose after a job in Venezuela. It was more complicated than usual. So, as a parting gift he tipped me about a kill team heading to New Orleans for you. GEORGE So, he knew about the hit, but not the players? I don’t buy it. JAMES It was just chatter on the wire. Devon had one lead. A satellite phone. I traced it to a building in the warehouse district, broke in, found surveillance photos of you. Then the kill team came back, got a drop on me. I took one of them out but barely escaped. GEORGE Look at you, Houdini. JAMES Teresa, you need to disappear while we find out who contracted them. We don’t have much time. POTE Easy. Easy. You just had surgery, cabrón. TERESA He's right. You need to rest. No one knows about this safe house. It will buy us time. TERESA She's with us now. She’s my lawyer. POTE And she's family. KELLY ANNE Thank you for not murderin' me. JAMES You’re welcome. How did you get back here? KELLY ANNE It's a long story. I’ll tell you some time. Why did you do it? I mean, I'm-I’m glad you let me live, but. Why? JAMES I knew you didn’t mean to betray her. You were scared and high, not thinking straight. KELLY ANNE I’m sober now. And you gave me a second chance. JAMES That’s good to hear. Must’ve been hard to regain Teresa’s trust. KELLY ANNE Oh, f-- Yeah. I mean, it was, uh, touch and go there for a while, but we’re good now. And like Pote said, we're a family. JAMES Proves I was right. If I’d have taken the order, a lot of people would’ve regretted it. KELLY ANNE Well, if you plan on stickin' around, you just need to remember that Teresa is the boss. So, next time she gives you an order, you better follow it. GEORGE Do I gotta remind everyone that James has been MIA for a year? He’s got a history with Camila, now the CIA. Neither one of those two entities are known for being paragons of trust, all right? My hackles are at ninety degrees right now. POTE Well, someone shot James or you think that cabrón shot himself? GEORGE I think if anyone can shoot themselves, not make mush out of their liver, it’s the sniper in the next room. POTE He almost died of blood loss. He could've driven himself to the hospital, but instead he came here to warn us. GEORGE So what? What? We just believe him? That's it? POTE We need to find the hitmen and figure out who sent them because Teresa’s safety is the most important thing, cabrón. KELLY ANNE Okay, maybe we cancel our trip to New York and we just reschedule our banker interviews. TERESA If the threat is in New Orleans then getting out of town is a good idea. Confirm the meeting with the bankers. We’re going to New York. George, take Chicho and go to the address where James found the kill team. Find out who they are. KELLY ANNE Okay. GEORGE I know things are complicated between you and James, but it's real simple between you and me. I've only loved two women in my life, my mama and you. TERESA GEORGE You’re like the sister I never had, so I am always gonna be looking out for you. TERESA We’ve mistrusted James before. We were wrong. GEORGE Maybe this time it's different. And what if it's a trap? TERESA Then you know what to do. TERESA Just be sure. JUDGE CECIL Ms. Mendoza, let me introduce you to my dear friend, Captain Gamble. GAMBLE Puttin' you on notice. JUDGE CECIL I’m sure you’ve heard that I’m grieving the passing of my son. TERESA I’m sorry for your loss, but what you’ve done to Marcel is wrong. We both know he didn’t kill your son. I was with Marcel that night. JUDGE CECIL You think you’re a solid alibi? You had yourself that little after-hours tête-à-tête with Marcel, after you and your gang killed a dozen police officers. Please, feel free to make that public. TERESA I gave you Javier. We had a truce. End this now. JUDGE CECIL I find it very amusing that you still think you can make demands of me. Let me remind you that your existence in this city is entirely dependent upon my permission. TERESA My existence has made you a lot of money. JUDGE CECIL I don’t give a goddamn about your money. Marcel betrayed me and you’re going to stay out of it, or it'll be the end of you. GAMBLE We’ll be seein' each other again. POTE He brought his new attack dog. We need to be careful with this one… TERESA We need to find the proof that he’s corrupt. KELLY ANNE Hey, I have some bad news. There's been a second offer on the waterfront property. The realtor just gave us forty-eight hours to counter. POTE This day keeps getting better. TERESA We can use the money we just received from the Russians. KELLY ANNE It’s not enough cash. We gotta double it to best the offer. And it has to be clean. POTE How the hell are we going to get two hundred million and clean in two days? TERESA We got the payment. Is he happy with the product? OKSANA He’s thrilled with the quality. And he’s not an easy man to please. TERESA Good, we can double the next shipment. OKSANA Double? TERESA I have a surplus. It's available for him. I'm going to New York. I can discuss with him in person. OKSANA No, no, no, no, no. This isn’t possible. Kotsya doesn’t meet people. He makes all of his deals through intermediaries. TERESA So, can you make the proposal? OKSANA I will speak to him but I can make no promises. Teresa, if it were up to me, I would say yes, but Kostya's different story. OKSANA I will impress upon him the importance of your request, okay? TERESA Thank you. POTE Hmm... It makes me nervous doing business with a pinche ghost. TERESA Did Epifanio ever work with anyone in New York? Someone who could handle this kind of weight on short notice. POTE There is this one guy. I'm not sure if he's still in the business, but I'll make a few phone calls. POTE We're not gonna wait for Kostya to give us his answer, huh? TERESA The waterfront is key to go legitimate. I need to make that happen. BOAZ Jefa! Momento por favor. Somebody gets hurt. ANGEL BOAZ Tell your men to relax. I just wanna talk about Javier. TERESA Who are you? BOAZ Es mi primo Angel. And he was close to Javier. TERESA Come have a drink. POTE Listen to your cousin, cabrón. BOAZ You handed over my primo to a la hijo de puta juez. TERESA It wasn't a choice. BOAZ He killed my primo and Emilia. El amor de mi vida... I want his head. TERESA I know you're angry. BOAZ Aren't you angry? This man's been screwing you since you showed up in this city. TERESA I don't want feds showing up at my door. We have a plan to take him down. You have to trust me. BOAZ My Javier era mí sangre, no tuya. TERESA He killed my godson. If I can wait, so can you. This isn't a request. BOAZ Vengeance can wait, but it won’t wait forever, jefa. TERESA Javier killed Lafayette's nephew. And you played a part in that, too. BOAZ And you can blame me and Javier all you want. But the truth is, if you would've killed that pinche first time he stuck his hands in your pocket, a lot of people would still be alive. Javier, Emilia... Even Tony. Vámonos. TERESA He needs to cool down. POTE Boaz? Cool down? That's never gonna happen. I'll call New York. GEORGE Wakey-wakey. You secret agent man. JAMES Who turned off my morphine drip? GEORGE I did. I need you nice and clear headed for the question and answer portion of this beauty pageant. JAMES What are you talking about? GEORGE Why were you tracking Teresa and Pote's phones? JAMES I tracked them, so I could warn her. GEORGE So, then why didn't you reach out the second you knew there was a kill team in NOLA? JAMES I tried. She was off grid. I couldn't make contact. CHICHO That's true. We went to the mattresses when we were at war with the Judge. JAMES Who are you? GEORGE That's Chicho. And he's gonna stop talking while I head up this inquisition. JAMES George, if I knew you were with her, I would have reached out. I assumed you'd gone after what happened with Bilal. GEORGE Well, I stayed because Teresa is the only family that I have. So, let me be really clear. If you're here to mess with her head in any way, you and I are gonna have some Grand Canyon sized problems. Now, T-Rex puts on a steely front, but she was hit hard when you walked away back in Phoenix. JAMES I didn't walk away. My work with Finch was all about keeping Teresa safe. You've no idea what I've done to protect her. GEORGE We're about to find out, because we're going on a field trip. You're gonna take us to the location where you had your little shoot out with the hitman. JAMES Does she know about this? GEORGE You don't have to worry about that. This is between you and me. So get dressed. Yellow's your color. Chop-chop, Jack Ryan. JAMES I'm gonna need my gun. GEORGE You don't have to worry about that neither. We got you covered. POTE We'll be there. I set up a meeting for us with a Dominican from The Heights. His name is Oscar Polanco. They call him El Conejo. KELLY ANNE Still working on that beginner's Spanish. What does that mean? POTE The Rabbit. That was his nickname when he used to play baseball for the Mexican League. That's where he met Epifanio and decided to play a different type of game, one that pays better. TERESA Why did he stop working with Epifanio? POTE He got pinched crossing some coke over the border. He went to prison. We lost touch. Pretends that when he got out, he made a name for himself. Now he's the king of coke, from Harlem to The Bronx. KELLY ANNE But if the Dominicans take over your coke, won't that make them competition for the Russians? TERESA I never made an exclusive deal with the Russians for New York. We need the money. GEORGE You said you shot one of 'em. Show me where. JAMES It was right here. GEORGE Where's the blood? See, I don't see any blood. And le-- Let me guess... It was a cleaning lady's day? JAMES They were professionals. They must have cleaned up. GEORGE Now, let me get this straight. They had a shootout with you. You killed one of 'em and you fled, but instead of hightailin' it after you, one of them grabbed a goddamn mop bucket? JAMES Somebody cleaned up. GEORGE Bullshit! Now, you tell me what your game is, or I'm gonna put you down right now. JAMES I saw surveillance photos of Teresa and Pote, outside of a distillery. Take me there. I can find proof. GEORGE You want me to take you on a recon of our business? JAMES Look, I'm just trying to protect Teresa. But if you don't believe me, take your shot. Right here. GEORGE Right there? JAMES But it's on your head when the kill team comes back to finish the job. GEORGE All right, we'll go the distillery. But if this is all just one long stall and I smell anything off, you're dead roger mornin'. I swear to God. MALE RAPPER 1 POLANCO Mm. TERESA Can you handle a metric ton? POLANCO You know, in The Heights, la cocaina it's like champagne. It's for weddings, bachelor parties, bachelorettes, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. However, my customer base has changed. There's a lot of White hipsters movin' into The Heights. Every day is a special occasion for these rich kids. POTE Sounds like business is booming. POLANCO Yeah, what can I say? Gentrification has been good to me. However, to answer your question. I can handle the weight, but la pregunta importante... Can you handle the heat that will come down from the Russians? TERESA I don't answer to the Russians. Are you interested? POLANCO I'm more interested in the money it's gonna make me. I love my kicks. Gotta add to my collection. TERESA I'll let you know when we can close the deal. POLANCO Listen, you may as well send the coke. Because when el Ruso viejo finds out that you sat down with me, there's gonna be trouble either way. CATHERINE Miss Van Awken has explained your delicate needs. You have a very lucrative cash business and you need assistance managing that money as to not raise any alarms. TERESA What is your offer, Miss Nakai? CATHERINE We're prepared to offer you a series of business loans at a high interest rate. TERESA Which is? CATHERINE Eight percent. Then our bank will take our cut from the interest, and the IRS would have trouble detecting them. Look, I know you have a real estate deadline. I can clean your money in time and send you the loan paperwork. TERESA A banker stole from me once. He's no longer in business. CATHERINE We would never put your money at risk. TERESA I look forward to doing business with you. Thank you for coming. POTE Teresa. CATHERINE I should get back to the office and draw up your paperwork. I'll send everything to Miss Van Awken in the morning. Thank you for your time. TERESA Thank you. OKSANA Teresa. I knew you were in town on business, but I didn't know just how busy you would be. You sat down with our competitor, Polanco. That is unacceptable. JAMES Right there. That's where the surveillance photos were taken. GEORGE Okay, let's go. OKSANA You met with the Dominican, and by doing so, you jeopardized your business with my cousin. TERESA I never made a deal to sell exclusively to your cousin. OKSANA Teresa, he won't respond kindly to this slight. TERESA It's time for me to meet him face to face. OKSANA I told you, that is not possible. TERESA Then we have a problem. I won't do business with a ghost. OKSANA Teresa, you have placed me in a terrible position. TERESA I leave New York tonight. If Kostya wants to meet me before then, let me know. JAMES It's a perfect place to surveil the distillery. The office is inside. GEORGE You two post up out here. I'mma go have a gander. After you. JAMES Someone's still using this place. GEORGE All I see is some bags stuffed with garbage and some crap strewn around. No kill team. No threats. JAMES These bags are proof, the guys are still in the area. GEORGE I'm tired of your rabbit trail. JAMES It's safe house procedure to keep the trash inside until the assignment's complete. The bags are here. Means those guys are coming back. GEORGE No. I'm over your spy games. Time's up. HITMEN GEORGE GEORGE CHICHO They're comin'! HITMAN 1 HITMAN 2 GEORGE HITMAN 2 CHICHO Where's James? GEORGE He's gone! CHICHO You were right. GEORGE We walked right into his trap. HITMAN 1 GEORGE Goddamn it, James. HITMAN 2 HITMAN 3 HITMAN 4 CHICHO HITMAN 1 JAMES GEORGE You okay? TERESA Am I meeting Kostya? OKSANA Yes, but it must be now. JAMES You won't find any ID on him. GEORGE I've seen these tatts before. PEOPLE IN RESTAURANT JUDGE CECIL Another bourbon. MALE BARTENDER 1 Sure thing. BOAZ Make that two. BOAZ You got it. Here you go. BOAZ To your son. I recognize you from the TV. My condolences. BOAZ I lost my son too. I blame myself. JUDGE CECIL How so? BOAZ Spoiled him. I made him weak. He was too soft. JUDGE CECIL Mm. They say the sins of the father are passed down. I wish my sins had been passed down. Davis had been a-- A son of a bitch... A bull like me. He'd still be alive. But. He took after his mother. God rest her soul. BOAZ I was angry for a long time. Then one day, I woke up at peace. JUDGE CECIL Peace? Not really my nature. BOAZ I never said it lasted. JUDGE CECIL What took its place? BOAZ Revenge. JUDGE CECIL Now, that's somethin' I can drink to. "Tears, then for babes; blows and revenge for me." Nice talking to you. But it's time for me to hit the hay. BOAZ BOAZ Judge. You dropped your keys. You might wanna be careful. New Orleans is a dangerous city. JUDGE CECIL Don't I know it. GEORGE Hey. TERESA George. Everything okay? GEORGE James is good. We found the other guys. We've got a serious problem, Teresa. The Russians. TERESA Pote, turn around.