<P> Seal's freeloading brother - in - law JB moves in, needing a job . Eventually, he starts stealing money from the Seals, is caught by Sheriff Downing with a briefcase full of laundered cash, and is arrested . Seal gives him money and a plane ticket to Bora Bora so he can leave . JB demands weekly cash and insults Lucy . Barry tries to chase him but JB's car explodes; it is implied Jorge Ochoa had JB's car rigged with explosives, killing him so that he would not snitch . </P> <P> Eventually, the CIA shuts the program down and abandons Seal, who is arrested by the FBI, DEA, ATF and Arkansas State Police simultaneously . Seal escapes prosecution by making a deal with the White House, which wants evidence the Sandinistas are drug traffickers . They ask Seal to get photos that tie the Medellín Cartel to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas . Seal manages to get the pictures, but the White House releases them as propaganda against the Sandinistas . Seal is prominently shown in the pictures, which leads to his arrest, and to the cartel plotting revenge . </P> <P> Seal is convicted but given a light sentence, a total of 1,200 hours community service for the Salvation Army . Moving from motel to motel fails as a way of remaining in hiding because the community service is performed at the same building every night . Assassins sent by Pablo Escobar and the cartel easily locate Seal and kill him; the CIA then destroys all documentation and other evidence to avoid being implicated in drug smuggling . Even after Seal is dead and the evidence is destroyed, the CIA still becomes embroiled in the infamous Iran--Contra affair . </P> <Ul> <Li> Tom Cruise as Barry Seal </Li> <Li> Sarah Wright as Lucy </Li> <Li> Domhnall Gleeson as Monty Schafer </Li> <Li> Alejandro Edda as Jorge Ochoa </Li> <Li> Benito Martinez as James Rangel </Li> <Li> Mauricio Mejia as Pablo Escobar </Li> <Li> Jayma Mays as Dana Sibota </Li> <Li> Jesse Plemons as Sheriff Downing </Li> <Li> Lola Kirke as Judy Downing </Li> <Li> Frank Licari as ATF Special Agent Franks </Li> <Li> Jed Rees as Louis Finkle </Li> <Li> Caleb Landry Jones as JB </Li> <Li> Connor Trinneer as George W. Bush </Li> <Li> Robert P. Farrior as Oliver North </Li> </Ul>

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