As a big fan of movies, I basically felt like they were COPYING "The Godfather" with Daniel and it felt forced...
If the Acosta gang is now with the Lords, ok BUT didn't the Acosta gang just give up almost all their real estate?
To put the deal between the Acosta and Metas into math the transfer was at MINIMUM 40-50% done...
Like they were only planning on keeping Javier alive till he transferred over the LAST few bits of the enterprise...
It seemed like they were just waiting on the last few bits of the deal when they talked about it...
But that's all us guessing lets talk about how the Metas let the GTF team walk away after cutting the bosses daughter and killing those soldiers...
YEAHHHHHHHHHH RIGHT!
I think the Metas were EXPECTING Chapel and his team to go after them, which is why they even USED the daughter as a decoy to begin with. They were well prepared and without question, the Meta leader gives two shiits about personal feelings. Them dudes are STRICTLY about literal cutthroat business. And that's the fatal flaw about Chapel AND Ryan, they allowed their personal feelings get in the way. The Meta boss may loves his daughter, but he's not going to sell out his own integrity just to save his daughter, and that's what Chapel did not expect. Dude was straight up with Chapel, "do what you will, but they'll be repercussions for your actions". And that's the truth.
Ryan simpin' ass ways is WHY the Acostas couldn't get the upper-hand. When Daniel was forced to be kidnapped until Javier paid the Metas, neither Javier OR Daniel took that shyt to heart. It even made Daniel more hardcore and accept his destiny that he eventually is at now. In the words of THE WIRE, "the game is the game". Don't let your own personal feeling get it twisted.