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We see the televised drawing of Mexico’s “Melate” lottery on January 22, 2012. The jackpot is 160 million pesos (about $8.5 million). but we also see the drawing for that night, with closeups of the balls and other machinery that would shoot the chosen balls out.
“Three months before the fraud.” José Luis Conejera (Alberto Guerra) is watching his teenage daughter Karen (Jesusa Ochoa) winning the go-kart race she’s in. He’s told by Mauricio Legoretta (Andrés Almeida), a former racing rival, that he may want someone with her talent on his racing team.
José Luis works for the Melate lottery, and he’s coming in on a Sunday for a special 30th anniversary drawing, hosted by Lina (Majo Vargas), the usual host of the drawings. Also giving a speech is Tarto (Christian Tappan), the director general of Pronósticos para la Asistencia Pública, the government agency overseeing the lottery. Tarto is more concerned with advancing politically than his actual job, and pumps José Luis to get him tickets to a magician his wife likes.
When José Luis finds out from Mauricio that it’s going to cost 6 million pesos (about $325,000) for Karen to join his team (she’s a risk because she’s a girl), he’s determined to come up with the money. Karen’s mother (and José Luis’s fiancée) Laura (Ana Brenda Contreras) tells him not to get her hopes up.
But José Luis comes up with an idea to reconfigure the lottery’s sponsorships so that its proceeds support girls’ sports, including Karen’s racing career. But when Tarto cancels the contracts under a cloud of corruption, José Luis — who actually plays the lottery because of his love of numbers and statistics — decides he needs to rig it in his favor.
Even after the first episode, we’re not sure how the plan is going to play out in this fictionalized version of the lottery heist. The pre-tape option we described above seems to be the simplest one, especially because the people participating — José Luis, Lena and production staff Mario (Jero Medina), Gilberto (Aldo Escalante) and Charly (Luis Alberti) — are all involved in the televised drawing. But it definitely is a different kind of heist than figuring out how to break into a vault or steal a piece of art.
We were a bit confused at the sequence of events that led José Luis to “steal the golden goose,” as he says when he comes to his epiphany about the heist plan. We think the way we described it above, with José Luis securing proceeds from the lottery to go to support his daughter’s racing career, is correct, but the machinations of the politics of how Pronósticos fits into Mexico’s governmental structure and just how corrupt Tarto is was unclear.
That may not matter all that much, though, as we watch José Luis get the others involved and hatch the plan, then execute it and try not to get caught. Like we said, it’s not like we see lottery-scamming heists all the time, so at the very least seeing it play out will be interesting.
