A Man Apart 🎥 2003 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks, lifelong friends who grew up together in Los Angeles, are former gang members who have become DEA agents. Under their supervisor Ty Frost, they have spent the past seven years pursuing Memo Lucero, a Colombian national who controls an extensive drug cartel spanning northern Mexico and southern California. In Tijuana, DEA and Mexican PJF agents prepare to raid a nightclub where Lucero is hosting a gathering. Frost reminds Vetter and Hicks that the PJF has prohibited DEA agents from carrying firearms into the raid and confiscates their guns; however, PJF agent Gustavo Leon disagrees with the policy and supplies them with pistols.

In the commotion of the raid, Lucero initially escapes unnoticed through a hidden tunnel that leads to the street, though Vetter identifies the entrance to the tunnel and gives chase. Lucero flees in a vehicle disguised as a taxicab while Vetter pursues on foot and catches up when Lucero becomes stuck in traffic. As he is arrested, Lucero cryptically warns Vetter that he is making a mistake. Vetter surprises his wife Stacy by returning home early from Mexico. While the DEA declares total victory over Lucero’s cartel at a press conference, Lucero’s former operations are taken over by forces working for “El Diablo,” an unknown underworld figure.

Lucero, now extradited to the United States and incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Victorville, receives a smuggled satellite phone and is informed of the Diablo development by his associates Ramon Cadena and Mateo Santos, while law enforcement listens over a wiretap. Santos promises to protect Lucero’s wife Teresa and young son Memocito. Shortly afterwards, Cadena is assassinated in Mexico City. The Vetters host a party at their beachside home celebrating Lucero’s arrest, attended by Sean’s friends and colleagues, including Frost, Hicks and his family, and “Big Sexy,” a gang member Sean and Hicks grew up with.

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