Sicario (2015)

In Chandler, Arizona, FBI agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a suspected Sonora Cartel safe house where they discover dozens of decaying corpses and a booby trap which kills two police officers. Following the raid, Kate’s boss recommends her for a Department of Justice and Department of Defense joint task force overseen by CIA officer Matt Graver and the secretive Alejandro Gillick. Assured that the task force has been set up to apprehend Sonora Cartel lieutenant Manuel Díaz and to bring to justice those responsible for the safe-house incident, Kate joins the operation.

The team, which includes Delta Force operators, deputy U.S. Marshals and CIA personnel, travel to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to extradite Díaz’s brother and henchman, Guillermo Díaz. Kate is left shocked when the team kills cartel hitmen as they return through the US-Mexico border. Back in the U.S., Alejandro learns from torturing Guillermo that the cartel uses a tunnel near Nogales, Sonora to smuggle drugs into the United States. Meanwhile, a disillusioned Kate forces Matt to reveal that the mission is not to apprehend Díaz but to disrupt his drug operations so much he will be summoned back to Mexico by his boss, Fausto Alarcón, the elusive Sonora Cartel drug lord. Matt hopes that by following Díaz, they can bring Alarcón to justice. An unnerved Kate asks her partner, Reggie, to join her for support.