 The film has Seal becoming buddies with Cartel Kingpins, Escobar, and Ochoa. This comes after forming a lucrative partnership and partying with them at their penthouse in Cartagena, at least until the party is broken up by the Colombian army. The Kingpins, plus Seal, are thrown in jail. But while the Colombians walk free the next day, Seal remains incarcerated until Shaefer gets him out. The agent later warns Seal that the smuggler has to get himself and his family out of Baton Rouge before sunrise in order to avoid a police raid, and arranges for them to relocate to remote Mina, Arkansas, where the agency provides Seal with not only a house but also an airfield. In reality, Seal was arrested with 40 kilograms of cocaine and spent 9 months in a Honduran jail. There he met Ochoa's New Orleans business manager, who brought Seal into the Medellin Cartel's orbit in 1982. He became its chief link to cocaine markets in the southeastern U.S., with his 1981 bank records showing daily deposits of $50,000 into a Bahamian bank. Also, he moved to Mina of his own accord in 1982.