encouragement from his marginally-legal Aunt Vicky to learn some get-rich-tricks from her), is his disgust with having to partner up with wild-ass-agent (“He’s nuts!”) Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo), but he has no choice as Abreu already has a snitch contact with some lower-level-cartel-members so he’s necessary for Mazur to work his way into the confidence of these crooks as a supposed-top-flight-money-launderer from New Jersey.
The main problem for Mazur, though (beyond his familial-inner-struggles where he’s asked by Evelyn to simply get out while he can vs. This injury, and his time in service, would earn him a full-benefit-disability-retirement but he prefers (against his wife, Evelyn’s, wishes, fearful for their lives and for their young daughter and son) to stay in for 1 more big operation that his boss, Bonni Tischler (Amy Ryan), wants to orchestrate against Pablo Escobar’s huge Colombia-based-Medellín cartel which is moving billions of dollars a year in cocaine into the U.S., largely through south Florida. As the authorities swoop in, though, we see Mazur suddenly doubled up in pain in what looks like it might be part of his tactics but after he’s taken away we learn that it’s a deep scar on his chest from the wire he was wearing. Customs agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) in Tampa, FL, 1985, he’s got a scraggly mustache, wearing beat-up-clothes, finalizing the setup in a bowling alley for the arrest of his supposed-friend.
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