All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 A Narco Speaks

    • April 17, 2020
    • SBS

    In the mid-1990s, Guatemalan businessman Otto Herrera finds himself in the middle of a cocaine goldrush and decides to cash in. For the first time ever, Otto Herrera tells the story of his rise to become Central America’s ultimate narco middle man - the invisible link between Colombia’s cocaine kingpins and Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel. In a no holds barred and brutally honest interview, Herrera reveals what its really like to be pulling the strings on a multi-million dollar cocaine empire.

  • S01E02 The Gray Ghost

    • April 24, 2020
    • SBS

    In the mid-2000s, DEA agents begin hearing whispers of a kingpin known as The Gray Ghost. The secretive suit-wearing superboss heads the world’s largest drug trafficking and money laundering operation, but most in law enforcement don’t even know he exists. This is the gripping untold story of The Gray Ghost’s meteoric and ruthless rise to the top, and of how an unprecedented investigation by American agents forced him out of the shadows.

  • S01E03 Breaking Borders

    • May 1, 2020
    • SBS

    With cocaine demand at an all-time high, the new generation of Narcos will stop at nothing to get their product to market. From speedboats to semi-submersibles and from private jets to commercial airliners, cocaine shipments are breaking borders in every way imaginable. This episode examines some of the most ingenious, brazen and cutting-edge smuggling attempts and reveals the secret investigations that brought them undone.

  • S01E04 Escobar's Successor

    • May 8, 2020
    • SBS

    From the ruins of Pablo Escobar’s Colombian cocaine empire, a new type of drug lord emerges. Don Berna rises from the shadows to become the most feared and dangerous narco trafficker you’ve never heard of - the first Invisible. With tentacles extending into every corner of Colombian society, Berna thinks he’s untouchable - but a tough New York cop has him in his sights and will stop at nothing to take him down.

  • S01E05 Super Villain

    • May 15, 2020
    • SBS

    Transnational criminal Paul Le Roux has made millions as a gunner runner, diamond smuggler, and warlord. But what he wants more than anything is to follow in the footsteps of Pablo Escobar as a cocaine kingpin. Le Roux sets his sights on the lucrative market of Australia, where cocaine can be sold for astronomical profits. But as he attempts to land his first shipment, the DEA and Australian Federal Police are watching.

  • S01E06 The Phantom

    • May 22, 2020
    • SBS

    We follow investigative journalist Jeremy McDermott as he tracks down an Invisible who goes by the alias Memo Fantasma. Legend has it that in 1993, he stole a load of cocaine from Pablo Escobar and used that as his seed money to start his own hidden drug empire. He managed to get a free pass from US Law Enforcement by giving up his cohorts. He has morphed himself into a seemingly successful businessman with a construction empire, but where does the money come from?