Warning: Spoilers for the Narcos: Mexico finale below!
Kidnapping Kiki showed their arrogance, yes, but also intense paranoia and uncertainty about what might be coming.
The rest stayed buried, and because of that, it allowed Felix to rise from the ashes.
But then he shakes Felixs hand as an acknowledgement that hes on his side.
He was against Kikis kidnapping, but ultimately ordered his death.
Felix hadnt forgotten that, but he had moved on; Rafa never did, and it cost him.
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Both Rafa and Don Neto are still alive (historical spoiler!
), so Felix did not contribute to their deaths.
Skinny made his move, as Don Neto says.
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There is the fabled greenhouse, its cheap plastic mostly torn to shreds, and inside rats are proliferating.
It was a metaphorical moment for Felix, but also a literal one.
Everything he has built his life on has been corrupted, by his own choices.
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It sets everything up, emotionally, for the next chapter.
What made the seasons best moments work was exactly that kind of focus on the personal.
Its all he has.
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The story thatNarcos: Mexicois telling is a massive, sprawling one.
To keep the story from getting too unwieldy, it needed grounding at all times.
Felixs Guadalajara Cartel changed the game, and thats important.
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But Kikis death did, too.
Those interests collided to fuel this drug war.
Both men achieved their objectives, to build something that will last.
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Both paid everything for it; and the fallout continues to this day.
Walt is bringing Operation Leyenda into Mexico, as a direct result of Kikis death.
Whereas the Colombian cartels had stories with clear conclusions, this one doesnt.
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And our narrator told us that from the start: “I’m going to tell you a story.
But I’ll be honest, it doesn’t have a happy ending.
In fact, it doesn’t have an ending at all.”
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Kikis death was a declaration of war.
And yet, we know that what comes after the Guadalajara Cartel is even worse.
