Afterwards, Ramiro is enlisted the task of recovering three stolen trucks that will be used for Morales's trafficking deal. Morales sends Ramiro to steal the Virgillo's prized car, only to blow it up. Ramiro saves Marco from a group of Virgillos who want to kill him because he was winning too much in the game of poker and Marco refers him to Cesar Morales, a local gang boss who had bragged of knowing Ernesto's murderer. With no alternative, Tommy calls his younger brother Ramiro, an imprisoned criminal, to take the job. Tommy destroys a Virgillo gang convoy and their gas station but is seriously wounded by a grenade explosion. Ernesto's son Tommy, a high-ranking DEA agent, goes to Mexico and finds Marco, who is his primary contact with Morales Cartel. Colonel Trust believes it's a drug overdose. After the attack, Ernesto is thrown from a plane and killed: his C.O. In 1989, Ernesto Cruz, a deep-cover DEA agent, leads a troop of DEA agents against a militia in a jungle to take some information on Papa Muerte.