Traffic (2000)

Police officer Javier Rodriguez Rodríguez tells his partner Manolo Sanchez, "... there’s my mother, may she rest in peace..." (0:01)

Man: "Don’t worry." (0:02)

Javier finds packages of drug powder in a box from a truck. (0:03)

Lawyer Rodman: "This informant, paid by police, using taxpayers’ dollars to continue his felony drug habit..."
Judge Robert Wakefield: ”You grow marijuana on your farm... that farm can be sold.” (0:06)

Robert tells his clerk Mark, "Medicinal marijuana initiative, or am I being cynical?" (0:07)

A reporter asks Robert, "Why is it important to get a handle on this drug problem?" (0:08)

DEA agent Ray Castro tells his partner Montel Gordon, "You are too uptight, man." (0:09)

Montel asks drug dealer Eduardo Ruiz, "We gonna move some white, or what?"
Eduardo: ”It’s not like you can stick it up some mule’s asshole.”
”I told you there was nothing to worry about.” (0:09)

Man smokes a glass pipe.
Her boyfriend Seth Abrahams and Judge Wakefield’s daughter Caroline snort cocaine from a mirror.
Seth cooks a solution of white powder in a spoon.
Seth tells Caroline, ”What you’re going to do is inhale the smoke and hold it.”
Caroline: ”What is this, like, freebase?”
Caroline inhales the vapor. (0:14)

Helena Ayala, wife of drug lord Carlos Ayala, tells her friends, "There’s good cholesterol, and there’s bad cholesterol, which is very confusing for me." (0:16)

Chief of Staff tells Judge Wakefield, "Until you officially take over the Office of National Drug Control Policy... In it you will outline the President’s strategy for winning the war on drugs." (0:17)

Jeff Sheridan tells Judge Wakefield, "There’s a political component to this job that the General didn’t have any patience for." (0:19)

Judge Wakefield tells Gen. Ralph Landry, "The Office of National Drug Control Policy is in better shape than when you found it." (0:19)

A lobbyist tells Judge Wakefield, "We in the legal drug business, and I mean Merck and Pfizer..." (0:23)

Don Nickles tells Judge Wakefield, "... if 25% of high school seniors are using drugs... you’d still have 10% habitually using drugs." (0:23)

An economist tells Judge Wakefield, "The price of coke and heroin has dropped, but purity has increased..." (0:23)

Harry Reid tells Judge Wakefield, "Education, rehabilitation, prevention, that’s not significant... They want to see the gory aspect of the drug problem." (0:23)

A senator tells Judge Wakefield, "... I have a good bill on treatment-on-demand." (0:24)

Jeff Podolsky tells Judge Wakefield, "If a judge or a politician is willing to put a reefer in their mouth, I’ll do a story on it." (0:24)

A man tells the others, "Addicts don’t vote." (0:24)

Montel tells Ray, "The amount of coke we found on this creep, that’s capital punishment in some states, right?" (0:25)

Men in “DEA” uniforms (0:26)

Salazar tells Javier, "Your parents died when their house flooded..." (0:27)

Manolo tells Javier, "This is crazy."
Javier: ”Don’t freak out, Manolo.”
Manolo: ”A hired assassin, a psychopath... crazy.” (0:29)

Caroline tells her parents, "None of my friends can... believe my dad’s actually the drug czar." (0:30)

His partner Arnie tells Helena, referring to her drug lord husband Carl, "The DEA has got him." (0:31)

Vaness smokes a pipe then snorts cocaine. Bowman snorts cocaine.
Bowman: ”I’m so... high.” (0:34)

Arnie tells Helena, "... when we get through suing... the DEA, they’re gonna be renaming the public parks after your husband... Carl is very, very good at his business, which is smuggling illegal drugs into this country." (0:40)

Judge Wakefield: "Caroline, how well did you know this boy that overdosed?"
Caroline: ”It wasn’t my pot.”
Robert’s wife Barbara: ”Lord knows, I tried every drug there was...”
Robert: ”... so she can OD like that other kid?” (0:44)

Assistant DA Dan Collier tells Judge Wakefield, "The kid they dropped off had coke and heroin in him."
Referring to Caroline: ”... have you asked her what kind of drugs she’s tried?”
”Is she in any kind of therapy...?” (0:49)

Drug paraphernalia. Caroline insufflates crack vapor. (0:50)

Salazar tells hitman Francisco Flores, "My father, may he rest in peace..." (0:54)

Reporter: "Yesterday, forces of the Mexican Army... joined with police to arrest members of the Obregón brothers drug cartel, head of the federal drug forces, Gen. Arturo Salazar said that the sweep was a crippling blow to the Obregón brothers, who reportedly dominate the narcotics trade..." (0:56)

A customs official answers Judge Wakefield: "Increase in narcotic seizures."
Wakefield: ”Would that mean, pro rata, three times as much drugs is getting in?”
Packages of drugs
Official: ”... when they’re losing dope... people start killing each other.” (0:58)

Caroline and Seth buy drugs from a dealer. (1:00)

Caroline insufflates crack.
Seth tells Caroline, ”I want to have sex and then do a hit right as we’re both coming.” (1:01)

Manolo’s wife Ana tells Javier, "I'm worried."
Javier: ”Don't worry so much.” (1:04)

EPIC Director John tells Judge Wakefield, "... over fifteen different agencies, state and local, that participate in gathering intelligence... to stop drug trafficking. From here we have the ability to track... anything that carries drugs." (1:06)

A DEA representative tells Judge Wakefield, "From a DEA stand point we need a vetted task force and matching funds..."
Wadefield: ”... treatment. Is there anybody from treatment here on this plane?”
”... I want to know why there isn't anybody from treatment on this plane.”
”We need to take down one of these cartels... not because they're a symbol, but... Hell, they are a symbol... because it’s a symbol. It’s a symbol that we are sending the best.” (1:08)

Judge Wakefield tells Barabara, "I think we may have found our Mexican drug czar."
Barbara: ”If you start in on the war metaphors, I'm going to drive this car right into a... telephone pole.”
Robert: ”Look, I’m as worried as you are.”
Referring to Caroline: ”Well, she has a way of self-medicating that I'm sure is very familiar to you.” (1:15)

Caroline prepares crack.
Robert asks Caroline, ”Where the hell are the drugs?”
Robert finds her paraphernalia. (1:17)

Gordon asks Castro, "You ever try the patch, man?"
”The patch.” (1:21)

Helena tells Montel and Ray, "These charges have created so much attention, it seems to be bringing nut jobs out of the nut jar." (1:23)

Marty, in a 12 step group: "I've been thinking a lot about the first step, that I came to believe that I was powerless over alcohol and that my life had become unmanageable. You see, my disease tells me that I don't have a disease, that it's my birthday and I can have one little beer, one little line, a little Valium. Six months later, I wake up in a sober living house in Philly... It’s... an obsession of the mind, so my name is Marty, and today I'm a grateful recovering alcoholic..."
Caroline: ”I'm not sure I'm an alcoholic. For someone my age, it's a lot easier to get drugs than it is to get alcohol.” (1:24)

Salazar tells Judge Wakefield, "I make the selection putting them under a rigorous screening process, and not only physically, but also psychologically."
Wakefield: ”What are your policies toward treatment of addiction?”
Salazar: ”Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose, and then there's one less to worry about.” (1:29)

Counselor: "What I want you to do right now is write down five triggers that could lead to your relapse, that could jeopardize your recovery. Five triggers... Anything that’s a trigger for you..." (1:30)

Javier tells Ana, "You seem nervous."
Ana, referring to Manolo: ”He says he's going to sell information to the DEA.”
Javier: ”What could he tell the DEA?” (1:35)

A man on the street asks Judge Wakefield, "What you want, pot, rock?" (1:36)

A dealer cooks drug for injection, then injects Caroline. She nods off. (1:38)

A man tells the others, "I don’t... deal drugs to little... kids..." (1:43)

Gordon reacts to the apparent death of Castro. (1:44)

Javier witnesses the execution of Manolo. (1:47)

Ana reacts to Manolo’s death. (1:50)

Juan Obregón tells Helena, "If you want to smuggle narcotics in Senor Espastico Jacobo, that is nothing new, Senora."
Helena: ”The doll is cocaine, high-impact, pressure-molded cocaine.”
Juan makes lines of cocaine on a mirror.
Juan insufflates cocaine. He tells Helena, “That’s good coke.”
Helena: ”I want to be the exclusive distributor of Obregón brothers’ cocaine in the United States...” (1:52)

After a polygraph test, agent Johnson tells Javier, "Oh, you don’t have to worry about that."
Javier: ”You worry about getting me what I want. I’ll worry about myself.” (1:54)

Funeral for Castro (1:56)

By telephone, Sheridan tells Judge Wakefield, "... the DEA supplied the information..." (1:57)

Robert tells Barbara, referring to Caroline, "Ten minutes after that she’ll be at her dealer." (1:58)

Seth tells Robert, "Okay, right now, all over this great nation of ours, 100,000 white people from the suburbs are cruising around downtown asking every black person they see, ‘You got any drugs?,’ ’You know where I can score some drugs?’ Think about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person... ‘You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?’..." (1:59)

Ruiz asks Gordon, "Can’t you for one second imagine that none of this had happened, that my drugs had gone through?... A few people get high who are getting high anyway."
”So remember, you work for a drug dealer too, Monty.” (2:06)

DEA agents behind boxes of drugs. (2:09)

Chief of Staff tells Judge Wakefield, "Don’t worry about that thing with your daughter... I have been in the trenches of the drug war..." (2:10)

Press secretary: "A sterling reputation and close friend of the President, recently confirmed into the Office of National Drug Control Policy, our new drug czar, Robert Hudson Wakefield."
Judge Wakefield: ”The war on drugs is a war that we have to win... If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy, and I don’t know how you wage war on your own family.” (2:11)

By telephone, Carlos Ayala asks Arnie, "Oh, is it insane?" (2:16)

Gordon tells Carlos, "Drug money buys a lot of nice shit, Carl." (2:17)

Caroline speaks in a 12 step group open meeting. (2:19)