Mariana van Zeller

And so we spent quite some time in Sinaloa and met a lieutenant and all these other people.

people involved.

And eventually it was another member of the cartel that had given us access to an operation in Washington state.

And there was some sort of arrests and that fell through.

And so then it moved to the lieutenant.

Basically, when you go down to Mexico, you have to meet several people, particularly if you're trying to get access to something in the United States and hoping that something will happen.

So we met all these people and there was all these possible options, but then nothing worked out.

And then the last one we met was this

Lieutenant, you could see in the episode, he's like all jittery and it was like one of the craziest scenes meeting him.

But we had like 15 minutes with him and then the Marines were coming and they all got nervous and wanted to leave.

But the last minute asked him, can we get access to your operation in the United States?

Because a lot of these groups have people that work for them in the U.S.

Obviously, the U.S.

is the end goals where they're sending their drugs.

And so eventually he said, OK, we've got you.

And it was all set up and we were supposed to meet them in Minnesota.

And so we traveled to Minnesota.

We're like, we're not a huge team, but we are six people and you've got lots of gear.

And I'm shooting 10 episodes every year.

We get there and then we waited and waited and waited for days.