Where They Went

Sicario (2015)

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

An FBI agent from Arizona is drafted onto a murky task force that takes her from El Paso across the border into Ciudad Juárez and back toward a cartel tunnel near Nogales.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Kidnapping house raid
    Chandler, Arizona
    ≈ 00:01:00
    Stated on screen

    Kate's team raids a cartel house and finds bodies hidden in the walls.

  2. 2FBI field office
    Phoenix, Arizona
    ≈ 00:09:00
    Inferred

    Kate volunteers for Matt's task force.

  3. 3Briefing
    El Paso, Texas
    ≈ 00:17:00
    Stated on screen

    The team lands in El Paso and gears up for a run into Mexico.

  4. 4Extraction and border shootout
    Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
    ≈ 00:22:00
    Stated on screen

    The convoy extracts a cartel figure from Juárez and shoots its way out of a traffic jam at the border.

  5. 5Fort Bliss
    El Paso, Texas
    ≈ 00:38:00
    Inferred

    The prisoner is interrogated at a military base.

  6. 6Bank and bar
    Phoenix, Arizona
    ≈ 00:50:00
    Inferred
  7. 7Border tunnel
    Nogales, Arizona
    ≈ 01:22:00
    Stated on screen
  8. 8Fausto Alarcón's estate (fictional)
    ≈ 01:40:00
    InferredFictional
  9. 9Kate's apartment
    Phoenix, Arizona
    ≈ 01:50:00
    Inferred

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
2,027 km
Places
6
Countries
2
Stops
9
  • Not shown: 1,402 km
  • Plane: 556 km
  • Car: 69 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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