Kenny

Kenny is one of the small crew of DEA agents working the Guadalajara station under Kiki Camarena, doing the unglamorous grind of building cases against traffickers nobody in Washington wants to believe are this powerful. He is easygoing among colleagues, quick with a joke, and steady under the pressure of an assignment that keeps getting more dangerous than anyone above him admits.

Alex Knight plays Kenny with an easy, lived-in camaraderie that makes the DEA office feel like a real workplace rather than a procedural set, full of gallows humor and genuine loyalty. That groundedness matters in a show built on institutional rot: Kenny's ordinariness is what makes the era's escalating violence land as tragedy rather than spectacle.