Why do the traffickers...


...decide to kill Alejandro? If it's because they don't buy his story that he works for Reyes, how are they so sure that he's lying? Although she had to change her story, Isabel admitted that he works for her father.

Is it because of the cover story about Isabel paying Alejandro to pretend to be her father? I didn't quite get the reason for that either. Can anyone explain?

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I'd also like to know how Thug #320 knew when to hit Alejandro over the head.

Or is giving someone your phone the universally agreed sign in Mexican Cartel language that you hit the guy over the head as soon as he grabs for it?

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When Miguel sees Alejandro outside the mall they flash the car lights/siren to "scare him" away, so he might have told the traffickers he very likely was part of some sort of law enforcement agency.

On the other hand, the traffickers were from the Matamoros cartel, which are enemies of Carlos Reyes' cartel. In fact, the US government plan was to fake kidnap then leave Isabel Reyes in Matamoros' territory, so Carlos Reyes' cartel would have to go there to rescue her, starting a war between both cartels. In the end, they might not even care about who Alejandro really was, and just wanted Isabel Reyes as leverage for themselves because, as Alejandro himself tells them "you guys have come across someone with a lot of value".

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I assumed the kid told them that Alejandro is police because of the sirens during their encounter in Texas

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