Drug mules are coming into the US via a ranch owned by Alex's old friend Nicole Foley played I a nice performance by country music legend Barbara Mandrel,and her husband Jake,played by Dallas star John Beck. Jake catches them but us killed by his traitorous foreman(Gary Graham,who's working for the Ortega Brothers drug cartel. The older Ortega is well and nastily played by Geoffrey Rivas,who later played a Vegas cop for many years on CSI. After brother Ramon is arrested,he ups the antenna having his corrupt puppet General lure Alex and Sydney to Nuevo Laredo, where he kidnaps them in an ambush reminiscent of the one in the movie Clear And Present Danger.
