Summary
Welcome to Season 3 of I Spy. On this episode, DEA special agent Steve Murphy is sent to Bogota, Colombia to hunt for the head of the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Escobar.
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| 0:00.0 | This is I Spy. Show from foreign policy. Where spies tell their stories. |
| 0:07.0 | Here I am. This white green go down there. I can't, I don't blend in. And I find out where |
| 0:18.2 | the lead case agents on the investigation of the Medi-Cartel, primarily Pablo Escobar. |
| 0:23.8 | The guys told me right off the bat, just so you know there's a price tag on your head. |
| 0:27.5 | $300,000. Pablo Escobar has put a bounty on us just simply because we're DE agents. |
| 0:33.8 | Now that will also cause you to stop and think. Hey I just got here. Give me a chance |
| 0:38.8 | before you kill me you know. |
| 0:44.5 | From foreign policy, welcome to this new season of I Spy. Where former intelligence operatives |
| 0:52.2 | tell their most dramatic stories. I'm Margot Martindale. We have eight new episodes for you |
| 0:58.9 | this season. Beginning with Steve Murphy, who served as a federal agent for the US Drug |
| 1:05.3 | Enforcement Agency for almost three decades. Murphy was sent to Bogota, Colombia in 1991 |
| 1:13.0 | to take part in the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the man known as the King of Cocaine. Escobar |
| 1:21.2 | headed the brutal Medellin Cartel, which in its heyday was smuggling up to 80 tons of |
| 1:28.0 | cocaine to the United States each month. Profits from the Narcotics Business made Escobar |
| 1:35.2 | one of the richest people in the world. Murphy and his partner Javier Penja lived with |
| 1:41.4 | Colombian police officers in Medellin, off and on while hunting for Escobar. This is part |
| 1:47.5 | one of Murphy's story. I became a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration |
| 1:58.1 | in 1987 and following graduates from the Academy, my first post was Miami, Florida, arriving |
| 2:04.6 | there in November 1987. Now during this time it was still like the old wild, wild west down |
| 2:11.0 | there. There were still a lot of violence, a lot of murders, a lot of everything was drug |
| 2:14.6 | related. All the money in South Florida was tainted with cocaine residue, so much so that |
| 2:21.1 | a drug canine detection dog, if he alerted on money, that was no longer probable calls |
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