The voice belongs to Miguel (Alfonso Dosal), whose ragtag team consists of Lilí (Ester Expósito), a con artist; Wilson (Juan Pablo Medina), a counterfeiter; and Lucas (Juan Pablo Fuentes), a teenage gamer-turned-hacker. “We’re the perfect bandits,” he proclaims. “What could possibly go wrong?”
Five days earlier, at a resort on the Yucatán Peninsula, Miguel is brought in to work by his uncle Wilson, who has retired from his career as a con artist to give tours of the region. At the pool, Miguel sees Lilí, an old girlfriend he used to run scams with. She’s there to find rich men to try to seduce and rob. Every person Miguel identifies is dismissed by Lilí because she notices things Miguel doesn’t.
Stars: Alfonso Dosal, Ester Expósito, Mabel Cadena
That night at the bar, Miguel meets and gets drunk with a Spanish treasure hunter who knew about Miguel’s father, Juan (Bruno Bichir), a well-known archaeologist/treasure hunter. The Spaniard is in Mexico to find Aj Took's treasure, which his great-grandfather, another famous treasure hunter, told him about. As the two drunkenly return to the Spaniard's room at the resort, Miguel discovers that he has the treasure map tattooed on his stomach.
The next morning, Miguel wakes up in the Spaniard's room, but the man is gone. Luckily, he took pictures of the map and knows that the iconography on it is accurate. He definitely believes that if he can get the right group together, it will be a big hit. He tries to convince Wilson, who is reluctant, and Lili, who has heard this song and dance from Miguel before. Lucas, the son of the woman who owns the hotel chain, seems to be there just for fun.
Things become more urgent when he goes to visit his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's and lives in a memory care facility, and discovers that his father's savings have run out and he owes the facility money.
One thing he does know: the map that's been tattooed on the Spaniard isn't complete, but he knows where a more detailed map is. It's in a new Yucatan antiquities museum opened by Ariel Tavitan (Andrés Baida), a protégé of his father. He sees an invitation to the opening party among his father's things and knows he can use it to get himself and his team to break in and find the map.
He gets Wilson on the team, but the only way to get Lilí on the team is to get her out of jail (with Lucas' money). Of course, they have to catch her in the act of scamming a rich guy first. Once he accomplishes that, he tells the team about his plan to get the map.
Meanwhile, the Spaniard is found dead, with the stomach area where the map tattoo was cut out. One of the police detectives in charge of the case, Inés (Mabel Cadena), seems to take the case more seriously than her boss, who removes a Rolex from her body and doesn't even wear gloves when they go to inspect her hotel room.
The story of Bandidos is that Miguel is so confident in his ability to hatch a complicated plan that it's funny when he and the team make a mistake, forcing them to improvise and figure out how to get out of the jam they're in. At some point, the team will grow to include Octavio (Nicolás Furtado), who we don't see in the first episode, and Citlali (Andrea Chaparro), who we see stealing Miguel's phone, jumping off a bridge, and swimming underwater for a long time, impressing both Miguel and Wilson in the process.
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