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1. Where did the story begin?

2. How did the Chief of Staff (Albert Finney) help Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas) become the country's drug czar?

3. What did General Landry (James Brolin) say about his own work in the war on drugs?

4. What did he tell Robert about the two letters that Khrushchev wrote for his successor?

5. Why did General Salazar (Tomas Milian) need Javier's (Benicio Del Toro) help to destroy the Tijuana cartel?

6. What other name was Francisco (Clinton Collins Jr.) known by?

7. How did General Salazar plan to make Francisco talk?

8. What happened to Bowman (Corey Spears) while Caroline (Erika Christensen) and Seth (Topher Grace) were talking about their parents and drugs?

9. Which two cartels were involved in the war?

10. How were they able to stay one step ahead of the authorities?

11. True or False: Javier wasn't paid any money for his cooperation with the authorities, all he wanted were some lights for a baseball field so the kids could play at night.

12. Where did Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer) hide all the names and the Swiss bank account numbers he had?

13. How did Eddie (Miguel Ferrer) survive the explosion that destroyed his car?

14. What happened to the person that tried to kill him?

15. What did Helena's (Catherine Zita-Jones) "Project for the Children" involve?

16. What kind of deal did she make with Juan Obregon (Benjamin Bratt)?

17. After beginning his written speech, this person said, "I can't do this." Then added that the war on drugs was a war on our own families.

18. Who supposedly died during a routine plastic surgery operation?

19. Why was Carlos set up by his own lawyer (Dennis Quaid)?

20. What was Robert Wakefield last seen doing?

Answers

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1. In Mexico, 20 miles southeast of Tijuana

2. He gave him some advice on how to handle congress.

3. He wasn't sure if he made any difference at all.

4. He told him that if his successor ran into a problem, he was to open the first letter and blame him. If he ran into another problem, he was to open the second and then write two letters of his own.

5. Because Javier could get Francisco Flores.

6. Frankie Flowers

7. He knew he could get him to talk if he saw him as a father, so his plan was to treat him like a son.

8. He passed out from an overdose.

9. Juarez and Obregon

10. They had unlimited budgets to gather intelligence.

11. True

12. He transferred the names and the numbers to a piece of microfilm and then hid it behind a painting.

13. He wasn't in the car when it blew up because he decided to walk back to the hotel to get some fresh air.

14. Frankie was shot by a man with a rifle.

15. It involved molding cocaine into dolls.

16. She offered him the dolls in exchange for the rights to the drugs that he brought into the US, and the death of Eddie. She also wanted her husband's debts forgiven.

17. Robert

18. Porfirio Madrigal (Joel Torres), aka The Scorpion

19. He wanted to take over his business.

20. He introduced himself and his wife to the group at his daughter's rehab meeting and then he told the group that he was there to "listen."