In Ridley Scott’s 2013 film The Counsellor, a Texan lawyer becomes involved with a Mexican drug cartel. He makes an investment with a drug dealer to buy a consignment from the cartel, but is warned of the dangers by one of the dealer’s associates; the Counsellor persists because of the enormous gains he expects to make. The deal goes bad after he does a favour for a woman accused of murder he is representing. The woman begs him to bail her son, a biker who has been arrested for speeding. The Counsellor helps the woman, but the son, who turns out to be working for the cartel, is decapitated in a trap set by the dealer’s girlfriend, who then steals the drugs.
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