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Season 5

No. of episodes

Premiere

April 7, 2021

Finale

El Final

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Season 5 of Queen of the South was confirmed on August 29, 2019 [ 1 ] [ 2 ]. It has 10 episodes, though the previous seasons had 13 episodes each [ 3 ]. It premiered in April 2021 [ 4 ]. Season 5 is the final season of the series .

Plot Overview

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In this season Teresa solidifies her empire in NYC and sets foot in Europe. Her dream to become ‘ besides adult to fail ‘ and to become legitimate is disrupted by an old enemy from the CIA, which agency has had other plans for Teresa for a long time. In this season Teresa loses more members of her carry class and finds sexual love. Teresa refuses to be a pawn for the CIA and develops a plan to fake her death and escape the narco liveliness for estimable.

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The Judge officially blames Dumas for the murder of his son. Captain Gamble appears and it becomes clear that he is in the Judge ‘s pocket. Teresa sits about and nervously waits for James, who has good had surgery, to wake up. George goes through James ‘s bag and finds tracking devices and jammers. He suggests James is the one coming to kill Teresa. After waking up James discloses that he worked for Devon Finch, who is a CIA contractile organ, and as parting give received the information about the hit on Teresa. James tracked the kill team but could not eliminate them as he got wounded. James does not know who they are. He tries to convince Teresa to disappear. She is shocked he went back to Finch, but James tells her he had not choice as Finch would have kept coming back. Teresa realizes James has sacrificed himself to protect her and her business. George expresses strong feelings that James is a double-crosser, and it is decided that he would take him to the gunfight target to gather details while the stay got to NYC to meet with a possible fresh buyer Polanko, the Dominican, and a fresh banker. George and Chicho take James to the distillery. The group is attacked by the kill team. One of George ‘s men is killed and using his artillery James eliminates the lie and saves the situation. George and James determine that the tats on the back of the kill team men are russian. Teresa needs $ 100 mln urgently to counteroffer on the water front property which is the key to making her clientele legit. As she can not sell to the Russians, Teresa orders the dispatch to be made to their rival the Dominicans. Teresa thanks James for risking his liveliness for her again and asks him about his plans and after realizing he is planning to stay ; she tells him to leave. James is shocked but prepares to leave On his way out James sees Pote who thanks him for sparing Kelly Anne and tells him the tragic narrative of Tony ‘s death whom they failed to protect. James understands that Teresa told him to leave to protect him. Pote tells James to stay as Teresa needs him. Teresa sees James helping Chico with the security systems. She seems happy he has not left. Oksana calls and demands a confluence. Oksana delivers the dead kill team stating that they were sent by Kostya to protect her, however they were traitors and turned against Teresa. Teresa receives newsworthiness that the Russians attacked the Dominicans in NYC. She and James leave for NYC as Teresa intends to fix things. Pote and Kelly Anne meet with Wheeler who was in cahoots with the Judge to give utmost sentences to hapless boys to get paid the maximum money from the State. Kelly Anne tells Pote that she is meaning. Teresa and James contribution drinks and discuss Teresa ‘s plans for a legitimate future. Teresa can not hold herself and kisses him. It is discernible that James reciprocates the feelings. Teresa conducts a successful meeting with the Russians and the Dominicans whereby they divide NYC. James and Teresa share a cigarette on the balcony. Teresa asks James to stay, and he agrees. She says that they can not be together in this life, but possibly in another one. Teresa tells the Judge that she has proof of his corruptness and that he needs to call in a iron league to clear Dumas ‘s identify. He unwillingly agrees. The Judge gets into his car to find angry Boaz waiting for him. The adjacent morning the Judge ’ s league is cancelled unexpectedly. Boaz brings a box with the discerp head of the Judge to the legal profession. Everyone is grossed out. Captain gamble arrives with early policemen at the bar looking for information on the Judge who is missing. Teresa sends James to smuggle Dumas out of express. Teresa and Pote are advised of good problems at the port of Altamira, Mexico that is managed by Boaz. Boaz resolves the matter for Teresa. James picks up Dumas and attempts to drive out of township, however Dumas insists on making a stop to meet with Lucien. James is chased by a patrol car ; he loses it in a pastime and hides in a road safehouse while informing Teresa to send another car. Dumas wants to leave, but James talks him out of it by convincing him that Teresa is a patriotic person who would never betray him. Teresa sends Boaz to Miami to take care of occupation. Captain gamble arrives at the bar looking for Boaz. He accepts Teresa ’ s bribe but calm needs a body to go to jail. A car arrives at the condom house and Captain Gamble accompanied by Teresa arrests Dumas for the murders of the Judge and his son. Dumas is shocked Teresa has betrayed him. James is besides shocked at her betrayal. Teresa says she had not choice and is planning to get Dumas out of imprison. Teresa snorts coke again and in anger tosses the coke box on the floor. Teresa and the team are searching for the Judge ’ s deposit accounts to solidify their claim that he is bribe. KELLY ANNE realizes that the Judge is previous school, and he would not use engineering to keep track of the bribe, but quite a manual of arms ledger. The team meet with Captain Gamble and ask him to search for the daybook. gamble finds the ledger, but on his manner to recover it James finds out that the FBI is surveying Gamble. Teresa gets scared that Gamble may turn on them if questioned by the FBI and orders James to kill him. Everyone is shocked at the extent of the risk ; James is not in agreement but takes the job. James shares his disappointment with Pote that apparently Teresa has lost her moral code. KELLY ANNE and Pote tell Teresa they are expecting a child. James breaks in Gamble ’ south house but is unable to kill him as his girlfriend arrives. James hides in the closet and hears over the police murder radio that the FBI is planning a raid on the distillery. James warns Teresa. James waits out the girlfriend and kills Gamble making it look like a heart attack. He places the thumb drive for the FBI to find. Oksana comes to the bar as she is in trouble with a german arts dealer Durant who paid her for her mollie with a bogus paint. The deal was done behind Kostya ’ s back. The only way out is to fly to Germany and try to recover the mollie from the arts dealer. George arrives in Miami and is greeted by not therefore enthusiastic Boaz who is having trouble with some Haitians working for him. George talks about not agreeing with Teresa coming down hard on Boaz for killing the Judge, but Boaz assures him he is patriotic as Teresa is the knob. The team arrives in Berlin Omni ’ s hotel which boasts a Van Gough paint in the anteroom. James is tasked with stealing the paint, which he does successfully after creating a small gunfight in the lobby. The meet with Durant goes crabwise. A gunfight ensues where all of Bashara ’ mho men are killed, and the mollie is recovered. James and Teresa discuss the expansion in Europe. Teresa believes that when the game gets excessively big to fail, they will be safe, while James questions the expansion as at present the bank is not uncoerced to launder more of their cash. Teresa responds that if needed they will buy the bank. It becomes clear up to James that Teresa has lost her beginnings and is focused on the drive for power. Navarro, a allocator in Western Europe, does not show at a prearrange touch and sends shooters for Teresa. James is angry with Teresa as she could have died in the attack and questions the need to expand with Navarro when he does not want them. The team determines that an Interpol agentive role needs to be kidnapped as he secretly works for Navarro and can set up a meet. James attacks the man in his gymnasium and after a short but serious crusade, James overpowers him and brings him to Teresa. The meet with Navarro goes well. Teresa and Navarro discuss their reciprocal humble beginnings and agree to do biz together. Boaz takes George on a chase of the Haitians who allegedly are cutting the coke with Fentanyl. Boaz thanks George and asks him to stay in Miami as his right hand. George calls Teresa. Kelly Anne is unable to get access to the waterfront property in NOLA as the only road leading up to it is not part of the sale. The sellers extort Kelly Anne and she discovers that they have sold the bought back the property for half the price respective times over the years. When she shares with Teresa, Teresa decides to treat them as the gangsters they behave like. The sellers meet with the team, where Pote shoots one of them and has the other one sign a revised interpretation of the sales contract. Upon close of the escrow, Pote, under Teresa ’ mho order, eliminates the second seller. Kelly Anne and James have a heart to heart conversation where James shares his pain from the changes he sees in Teresa and Kelly Anne tells him that the previous Teresa he misses is gone. James understands that he has to accept her as she is. George discovers that it was Boaz and his cousin Angel who were cutting the coke and Boaz shoots George in the head. The team prepares for a reception to mark the ready plan for the construction of the water front property. many city officials and business men are invited. Dumas who is freed from imprison and Cedric discuss Dumas ’ s unwillingness to have anything to do with Teresa Mendoza and her business. Dumas is tired of the violence and leaves the game to Cedric Teresa meets with the envoy of her colombian supplier Castel and requests double the product as she has made a new cover to supply Europe. Teresa meets with Osvaldo Ruiz, who is Boaz ’ s right handwriting in Sinaloa. Osvaldo talks to Boaz on the earphone, who is on his way to NOLA ready to attack. Teresa and James share a drink and reminisce about the hanker drive they have had together that has brought them to the beginning dance step of legitimacy. The switch over looks speak of thick undercurrents, but both behave in a reserve manner. The day after the reception Teresa is informed that the Colombians will not double her coke shipments as they believe she has grown excessively boastfully, and they already do adequate game in Europe. James and Teresa travel to Dumas in an attack to bury the hatchet, however it becomes clear that he wants to sever his relations with them. On the room spinal column they are attacked by Boaz ’ s men and after a heated gunfight miss back to the safe house. Teresa learns that her Phoenix operations has been hit a well and it becomes clear this is Boaz.

Kelly Anne is kidnapped when having an sonography at the hospital. Pote is searching for her, and James joins him and breaks the news program to Teresa. Teresa speaks to Boaz on the call and offers him the game in exchange for Kelly Anne. Boaz refuses and tells her she will soon find out what he wants. James shares with Teresa that Kelly Anne may be dead and Teresa tells him she wants to enlist Castel to cut off Boaz ’ s supply to force him down. James has no choice but to disclose to Teresa that Castel is a CIA asset. James explains he did not tell her preferably to prevent her from leaving their circle as then her money would have stopped and her plan to go legit would have been at hazard. Teresa understands that James has been protecting her all along. They decide to call Devon in the promise he can fix the position. Boaz and Pote talk on the phone. Boaz agrees to exchange Kelly Anne for Teresa. After several hours and no success in reaching Devon, Pote and Teresa leave to the meet with Boaz, while James, Chico and the Mossad men get in status around the meet placement. Pote and Teresa arrive at the meet. A gunfight result, where Kelly Anne is taken in an SUV and Pote chases them in a hand truck. James and Teresa arrive at the legal profession to find Devon expecting them. Devon reveals that he has ordered Castel and Boaz to start this war as they both work for him. He tells Teresa that the CIA allows criminals like her to exist so that they can be used for unavowed ops. The mystery op that Teresa and James are tasked with is to kill Kostya after locating him using their relationship with Oksana. It is ‘ killing or be killed ” scenario ! Both Teresa and James are shocked. Teresa calls Oksana and tells her Boaz has started a war and the only way out is for her to kill Kostya and take over Teresa ’ s game. Kelly Anne is brought to a bum motel and from there taken on the road in another fomite. Kelly Anne manages to cause and accident whereby she survives, and the driver dies. Pote rescues her. James and Teresa tell Pote they are leaving the game and that they expect Oksana to kill Kostya and take over. Pote is not glad as the plan does not involve punishing Boaz. Oksana arrives but is not feeling good and asks for water. Before being able to walk in, she falls with blood coming out of her nose and eyes. She has been poisoned by Kostya using the arsenal of KGB poisons. Kelly Anne sees the all in body and has a mental breakdown. Teresa sends Pote and Kelly Anne away to live in another town and out of the game. Kostya calls Teresa and tells her that he is coming for her and everyone she loves. She and James are listening to the threats and commute frighten looks. James and Teresa uncover that Kostya is a russian diplomat who is heavily protected. They bring the data to Devon, however, he insists that they take Kostya out. Devon promises them to become the largest trust with the support of the CIA if they succeed in this mission. Kelly Anne and Pote live in Little Rock under fudge names. Teresa and James plan how to take Kostya out. James suggests getting a pass and break in the russian embassy, but Teresa believes it is suicide and does not let him. Their only option is to attack Kostya in NYC and they enlist the help of the Dominicans. Boaz attacks the Dominicans in NYC and kills respective men as he is in cahoots with Kostya unbeknown to Devon. James and Teresa lose the component of surprise. Teresa thinks that if she can meet Kostya alone, she has a chance to kill him. She calls him and makes an offer to give him all that is left of her game. Kostya agrees and tells her to wait for meet details. Chicho calls Pote and asks for his avail in NYC. As the meet details are not coming, James and Teresa wait and end up kissing each other, making beloved, and confessing their love for each other. The meet with Kostya happens belated in the good morning in a russian teashop and Teresa walks in with her endow – a bottle of her own tequila. As Teresa has had his glass coated with the poison used on Oksana, Kostya dies, and his men are ready to shoot Teresa when Pote and James come in guns blazing. After they escape Teresa gets a call from Devon who congratulates her. Teresa tells her team that they will not be CIA pawns and are escaping to Belize. James is visited by Devon, who tasks him with one final mission – to kill Teresa as no one escapes this life. James accepts the mission unwillingly. Teresa arrives in Belize. She is shown to retire for the flush. She snorts some coke, then walks to the window and gets blastoff. The television camera moves to the gunman, and it is revealed that it is James. His expression is drab and focused. Teresa ’ sulfur torso is on the floor with rake trickling from her mouth. Pote is shown witnessing how Teresa ’ randomness body is cremated. James breaks in the patrol place and takes copies of the pics of Teresa ’ s dead torso. Boaz takes over Teresa ’ s house and game in NOLA. Dumas refuses to work for Boaz. Devon visits Boaz and the conversation shows that Devon is not expecting Boaz to run the game like Teresa did. Pote meets Chicho in Mexico and they drive to the hills outside of Culiacan where Pote spreads her ashes. James is hiding and taking pictures for Devon. After talking to Devon James finds a bombard in his truck and gets into a gunfight with a cause of death Devon sent. James secures the killer whale ‘s earphone with pics of Pote and Kelly Anne. James is wounded in the shoulder, but he calls Pote to warn him that Devon is after them. Pote calls Kelly Anne and instructs her to run as Devon ’ s men are coming for her. Kelly Anne manages to escape in a prearrange motel where she has to wait for Pote. Pote and Chico are attacked by Boaz ’ s men. They steal a car to escape and get caught as they get a flat tire. Pote is arrested for cable car larceny and sent to prison. Pote is released in FOUR YEARS. Chico meets him and they plan a retaliation on Boaz. Dumas joins them and lures Boaz in his cabaret. Pote challenges Boaz in a knife fight. The crusade is bally, but Pote prevails and kills Boaz avenging George, Kelly Anne and Teresa. Pote hands documents to Dumas and Chicho and tells them to never look for him. The documents are the possession and the funds for the development of the Waterfront property which Teresa had left to Dumas. Pote is shown walking on a abandoned beach where he meets a new daughter building a castle. KELLY ANNE appears and reunites with Pote presenting him to his daughter Lena. When they walk in the house James and Teresa appear. It is revealed that all of them have lived a quietly biography in this house for four years, Kelly Anne taking wish of Lena, Teresa learning to cook, James to surf. The escape plan is successful and is presented in a flashback. Teresa expected Devon to ask James to kill her and James agreed. After the shot Pote and Teresa faked the blood and paid off the morgue officials in Belize. Teresa escaped by gravy boat that she had on standby. After warning Pote that Devon is after him and Kelly Anne, James drove to Texas and saved Kelly Anne at the motel as Pote was arrested. The four have dinner at the mesa, finally as a kin in peace. James proposes a toast to a modern biography. Later James and Teresa are sitting at the dock, holding hands and watching Pote, Kelly Anne and Lena play in the urine. Teresa narrates how the girl from Culiacan killed the Queen to choose Life despite being told that her alone options were prison or death .

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Season 5 Cast

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On 22 August 2019, Ben Lobato tweeted, “ even waiting on the S5 pick up. Light some candles ” [ 5 ]. The official writer ‘s account besides tweeted, “ RT if you want # QueenOfTheSouth to get a 5th season ! ” [ 6 ]. The official Queen of the South score tweeted, “ The # QueenFamilia is coming binding. But where do you think we ‘ll go adjacent ? [ 7 ] “ and “ The season finale of # QueenOfTheSouth hits @ USA_Network tonight, but do n’t worry # QueenFamilia … Season 5 is on the way. [ 8 ] “ on August 29, 2019. Dailyn Rodriguez besides tweeted, “ Thank you all for watching season four. We will see you next year for Season five. [ 9 ] “ A few days belated, Season 5 was re-confirmed by the official Queen of the South page [ 10 ] .

Cast & Crew ‘s Response to Renewal

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Dailyn Rodriguez: Posted a quick link to variety for the season five announcement ‘cause I was in a restaurant. So… thanks to the fans, cast, crew, writers, post team, Fox 21 and USA. TV is a collaborative medium and we couldn’t make this series without all of you! [11]
Ben Lobato: We did it! I’m so thrilled #QueenoftheSouth is picked up for season five! Congratulations to our amazing #QueenFamilia from the cast to the crew – it takes a village. Thank you to the amazing fans for helping make this happen! [12]
Jorge Reyes: Well look at this. [13]
Ryan O’Nan: SO DAMN EXCITED! Season 5! So fun to find out this amazing news with this awesome guy. @alimiballard my brother. Thanks for being awesome. We’re so psyched y’all!! P.S. Sorry for calling you “my babies”. Don’t know what that was.Just got too excited!! WOOHOO!! [14][15][16]
Ryan O’Nan: WE GOT OUR SEASON 5 FAMILIA!!We have the best fans ever!! Thank you for your loyalty, humor and passion. So much love to my @queenonusa family!! [17][18]
Alimi Ballard: [19]
Davia Carter: Yay!! Muchas gracias a todo la #QueenFamilia!! [20]
Vera Cherny: Tonight’s Season Finale is going out with a BANG — and some major good news! Because: That is how La Reina rolls, ya’ll! CONGRATULATIONS, #QueenFamilia! So much LOVE! [21]
Molly Burnett: WE ARE COMING BACK FOR MORE!!! Thank you to the most amazing fans in the world for ridin with us!!!! Season 5 here we come [22][23]
Alice Braga: [24]

Writing process

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On October 30, 2019, showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez tweeted that they had their first day in the writers ‘ board with the writing team and said that “ [ e ] veryone is super psyched for season 5 ! ” [ 25 ]. On December 2, 2019, Alice Braga visited the writers ‘ room [ 26 ] .

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According to showrunner Ben Lobato, film was supposed to take place in March and the season was supposed to premiere in June 2020 [ 27 ]. unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that schedule has been delayed. On September 22, 2020, showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez confirmed that they are going back to filming “ very identical soon ! ” [ 28 ]. In late September 2020, actor Ryan O’Nan tweeted that he expected to return to filming Queen of the South “ reasonably curse soon ” [ 29 ]. JT Campos besides confirmed via Instagram that they are “ gearing up and getting ready to bring you the best in season 5 of # QueenoftheSouth ” [ 30 ]. Hemky Madera told a fan via Cameo that they would be resuming filming in October 2020 and that they should be finished with film by March 2021 [ 31 ]. In January 2020, Dailyn Rodriguez tweeted that she would be heading to New Orleans to produce the seventh sequence [ 32 ] .