Jackson Crane is a smuggler, flying his plane to bring in drugs and other items. He knew another pilot, Jimmy Cole, who ran the hangar one year ago when Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper came calling to run drugs from Cartagena to Miami as part of a DEA operation, after they returned Jimmy was wounded in a gunfight, he spent three months in the hospital recovering and retired from smuggling. Jimmy told Jackson about "Burnett and Cooper" and warned him about doing business with them.