Cali kingpins Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and Pacho Herrera became powerful players this past season. The king of cocaine may be eliminated, but the show's season finale also set up a worthy successor in the Cali cartel. The DEA doesn't believe that as well." Netflix We have our interpretation… Narcos doesn't believe. You'll get so many different answers in terms of who fired the shot. As Pascal told CBS This Morning, "How he dies, who kills him, is a mystery. But in the end, the show had to make some conscious choices in telling this version of the story. The task force certainly celebrated witnesses reported that the team fired their guns in the air screaming, "We won!" immediately after killing Escobar. The series flashes the actual photo taken in 1993.Īt least some of these details are verifiable. The team of police and DEA agents on the ground surrounded him, before one especially incensed officer shot Escobar point blank in the head, yelling, "Long live Colombia!" The operatives then gathered around his dead body for a trophy photo. Escobar fired off several rounds before the snipers hit him twice, which sent him down. The way Narcos orchestrates the takedown, El Límon was killed by police snipers almost as soon as they reached the roof. As leaked photos from the set show, Moura was outfitted with some freaky-looking fake feet, so he wouldn't cut up his real ones. The Narcos costume designers put Moura in an identical outfit for the big scene, though they didn't force their leading man to run the roof barefoot. But the crew was allowed to shoot on top of another Medellin building, so it cut its losses and replicated the original location.Įscobar died wearing an aggressively early-'90s two-toned polo shirt, jeans, and flip-flops, which he quickly lost in the skirmish. That turned out to be impossible executive producer Eric Newman claims the real roof had been built over, while the tabloids insist the homeowner wouldn't give permission. The showrunners hoped to shoot the scene on the exact Medellin rooftop where Escobar was killed. With firsthand accounts in hand, the Narcos team set out to secure a location - with one specific one in mind. While Peña was not present for the actual shootout, Murphy was on site, and extremely forthcoming with the Narcos staff: he even allegedly revealed which officer fired the kill shot. Both men shared accounts of the operation to help construct a timeline of the Escobar hunt. Narcos writers once again consulted with real-life DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña (played by Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal in the series) on the death scene details. Producers executed the scene with accuracy But Narcos did the best it could by approaching the scene with an almost fanatical attention to historical accuracy. The public still doesn't know exactly who shot him, and some of his family members even insist he shot himself to avoid capture. Almost to underline the point, a new trailer touting the hashtag #WhoKilledPabloEscobar dropped a month later.ĭespite the upfront marketing strategy, the cast and showrunners remained tight-lipped about how the death would go down, leaning into the the murky details of Escobar's fatal shootout. "This is definitely the last season for me," he announced. Wagner Moura, who plays Escobar, confirmed that his character would die in Season 2. Then, during the Television Critics Association summer press tour, the cast straight-up spoiled it. The first hints came courtesy of the Season 2 premiere announcement, which flashed Pablo's death date in bold numbers. Although Escobar's rise to the top of Colombia's cocaine empire could have easily filled four or five seasons, the Netflix show confined it to a single stretch of episodes. Then the creators outright promised an Escobar death in the new season, turning Season 2 into a turbulent grace note. Narcos had been building to this bloody demise since the Season 1 finale, which set up Escobar's jailbreak from La Catedral. The police nabbed him by tracing a call he made to his teenage son, Juan Pablo. This came after a 20-minute shootout involving himself, his bodyguard Alvaro de Jesus Agudelo ("El Límon"), and several members of the elite police task force known as the "Search Bloc." Escobar was on the run for over a year when the operation went down, following his escape from La Catedral, the luxurious "prison" he constructed himself, in June of 1992. Pablo Escobar died on a rooftop in Medellin, Colombia, on December 2nd, 1993.
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