The Big Dig is the fourth episode of Season 2 of Narcos: Mexico. It aired on February 13, 2020.
Synopsis[]
Zuno testifies in front of a grand jury. Isabella tries to broker a deal with Enedina. Felix makes a daring offer to a U.S. contact.
Plot[]
Zuno gives the DEA the names of his uncle and Félix as those that knew about Camarena's kidnap and execution, but then denies his statements in front of the Grand Jury, effectively putting an end to Operation Leyenda as an official investigation into Camarena's death. Following a plane owned by CIA-backed arms smuggler Juan Matta-Ballesteros being shot down on its way to the Nicaraguan Contras, Félix meets with the CIA to offer his assistance.
Matta is subsequently given up by the Mexican government as an act of compliance with the United States efforts to stop the drug trade following Zuno's arrest, and Félix takes over Matta's routes for the CIA. Sinaloan El Chapo takes matters into his own hands and buys property outside Tijuana on both sides of the U.S. – Mexico border with the intentions of building a tunnel. Isabella makes a deal with Enedina Arellano Félix of the Tijuana plaza to transport her cocaine behind Félix Gallardo's back.
Cast[]
- Diego Luna as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
- Joaquín Cosío as Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo
- José María Yazpik as Amado Carrillo Fuentes
- Ernesto Alterio as Salvador Osuna Nava
- Tessa Ia as Sofia Conesa
- Alejandro Edda as Joaquín Guzmán Loera
- Alfonso Dosal as Benjamín Arellano Félix
- Fermin Martinez as Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
- Fernanda Urrejola as Maria Elvira
- Gerardo Taracena as Pablo Acosta
- Gorka Lasaosa as Héctor Palma Salazar
- Viviana Serna as Guadalupe Leija Serrano ("Lupita")
- Guillermo Villegas as Sammy Alvarez
- Tenoch Huerta as Rafael Caro Quintero
- Horacio Garcia Rojas as Tomas Morlet
- Jackie Earle Haley as Jim Ferguson
- Manuel Masalva as Ramón Arellano Félix
- Teresa Ruiz as Isabella Bautista
- Yul Vazquez as John Gavin
- Julio Cesar Cedillo as Commander Guillermo Calderoni
- Scoot McNairy as Walt Breslin
- Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar
- Alberto Ammann as Hélmer Herrera
- Francisco Denis as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (reprising his role from Narcos)
- Pêpê Rapazote as José Santacruz Londoño
- Jorge A. Jimenez as Roberto Ramos
- Julián Díaz as Blackie
- Eric Lange as Bill Stechner
- Brian Buckley as John Clay Walker
- Mike Doyle as Thomas Buehl
- Sosie Bacon as Mimi Webb Miller