When an FBI agent trying to infiltrate the cartels' operations in LA is abducted, Cortez and Chris must go undercover in Mexico City to try and find where he's being held, then relay that information to SWAT to rescue him without blowing their cover.
Tropes
- Cassandra Truth: Raul Lopez's girlfriend doesn't trust Cortez under her alias and thinks she's up to something. He dismisses it as her being Green-Eyed Monster.
- Death Faked for You: As a test of loyalty, Raul sends Cortez and Chris to catch Chato, a former member of his crew who fled after inadvertently spilling intel to a girl working for a rival cartel. Since Romero tells them if handed over, Cortez will use a Cruel and Unusual Death to make an example of Chato, Chris and Cortez fake having killed him in a shoot out then hide him at Mexico City's police headquarters.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: When Cortez last encountered Raul Lopez during her time undercover in the Los Huesos cartel, he was a low-level enforcer. After the cartel collapsed the first time, Raul killed anyone left standing above him in the pecking order until he was in charge.Agent Romero: Raul did three years for the sting Cortez ran. He moved his way up in prison, then headed to Mexico as soon as he was out and shot up the ranks.Cortez: That's a quick rise. Raul was low-level when I worked him. Smart, but nothing close to a leader.Romero: Easy to rise when you take out the three guys ahead of you. He's not just smart, he's ruthless.
- In Love with the Mark: Inverted: Raul clearly has a soft spot for Cortez as her alias Alicia.
- Never Found the Body: Invoked: Agent Romero tells Chris and Cortez the Mexican authorities suspect Lopez to have killed at least 30 people, but they can't prove it because no bodies have been found.
- Noodle Incident: Cortez mentions several years ago, she was part of a sting operation that gutted the Los Huesos cartel's leadership.
- Tattooed Crook: Chris, as part of her undercover identity as Cortez's bodyguard, gets a massive one on her neck.
- Woman Scorned: Chris's backstory for her undercover identity is she and Cortez met in prison, where she was serving time for manslaughter after catching her boyfriend with another woman and killing him for it.
