- [first lines]
- Declan Gardiner: [narrating] Since the 1960s, the port city of Montreal has been one of the largest points of import for coke and heroin in the world. If you lived in New York, or Boston, or Philly, anywhere in the northeast of America really, and did drugs, they came through Montreal.
- Declan Gardiner: And with all that money on the table, everyone wanted their cut. So for decades, the city was at war. The Irish, they owned the docks. Haitians, well, they ran street level operations, the Bikers controlled distribution, but they had nothing without the Mafia. The Mafia had those international contacts to import the product.
- Declan Gardiner: [narrating] Life was good. Life was good for everyone. But if there's one thing you can ever count on, it's that gangsters are greedy, petty asses, and will always screw things up.