He finds a tarantula, which he places in a jar; he then hears a train coming down the tracks and sets off to see it, only to encounter Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and Todd Alquist as they are celebrating their success in stealing the methylamine from the tanker car on the train Kuby helped them stop. Unbeknownst to them, Jesse works with Saul Goodman to reacquire the home. Bogdan Wolynetz (played by Marius Stan) is the owner and proprietor of the car wash at which Walt is employed at the beginning of the series. Krazy-8 also appears in Better Call Saul as part of the Salamanca drug ring. Tuco Salamanca (played by Raymond Cruz) is a Mexican drug kingpin, and nephew to Hector. No homework. Gus has her discontinue treatment, effectively trapping his sound mind in his unhealed body. His crystal meth, which is given the street name "Blue Sky," dominates the market, leading to confrontations with established drug makers and dealers. Tuco and his grandmother are inadvertently targeted as part of one of Jimmy's cons along with two skateboarders. [28] Although Hank believes Gale to be the meth chemist known as "Heisenberg", Hank is affected by his culture and nerdiness, reflecting that such a "big brain" could have contributed to humanity if applied to something good. In Better Call Saul, in the flashforward at the beginning of season 5's "Magic Man," (presumably set after the events of El Camino) Saul calls Ed for a second extraction after a cab driver named Jeff recognizes him. He turns himself in. Bolsa tells Gus he will urge the Salamanca family to be patient but advises that Gus risks losing favor with the cartel if he does not finish his business with Walter quickly. When Hector suffers a stroke, a result of taking placebo medication that Nacho had planted instead of his nitroglycerin pills for his heart condition, the Cousins quickly arrive to watch over Hector at the hospital and refuse to leave his side. Todd was working for Vamonos Pest. When you hired Jesse Plemons to play Todd, could you have imagined the character becoming as important to the end of the show?No! Mike guesses that Lydia placed it because she wants out of the business, and again vows to kill her. Did you feel like you needed a stand-in for Todd and Uncle Jack and Kenny for Jesse to face down in this?It’s a couple of things. He reappears in Better Call Saul through a flashback, meeting and ridiculing Hector in his hacienda because of his inferiority to Gus Fring. [8], After Walt and Jesse ignite the lab,[9] Gomez returns with Hank to find it destroyed, with little evidence remaining. A month later, he returns to work as an air traffic controller while still distraught and causes a mid-air collision of two airplanes just above Albuquerque. Despite his flamboyant appearance and mannerisms—punctuated by his outrageous low-budget TV commercials—Saul is a highly competent lawyer who is able to solve problems and find loopholes in order to protect his clients. After reviewing it, Hank shows it to Walt and Walt Jr. A DVD shows Gale singing karaoke of the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by German musician Peter Schilling, in front of low-budget images of rockets and wildlife, with subtitles in Thai script. After Chuck's death and losing his own license to practice for a year, Jimmy returned to practice under the "Saul Goodman" name, drawing on the criminal clientele he had gained through his side business of selling disposable cell phones over the year before. Jesse again breaks into the gated lot and drives through the gate without paying for the repairs. He wrestles with feelings of guilt about the deaths, all drug-related, of people he has been associated with. Hector is in competition with Gus for control of cross-border drug smuggling. With the help of Mike, Jimmy manages to find the Kettleman's money, which they deliver to a district attorney. After Lydia provides the first shipment, the DEA visits Madrigal and Lydia is forced to give up her man in the warehouse to the DEA. Similarly, when Lalo Salamanca is seeking to arrange for Jimmy McGill to get his bail money to get out of jail, Bolsa discretely arranges for a squad of gunmen to attack Jimmy, believing that keeping Lalo in prison is in Gus's best interests but unaware that Gus had his own plans. Jack then orders the gang to dig up Walt's barrels of money (containing approximately $80 million), but at Todd's behest he leaves Walt alive with one barrel (about $11 million).[13]. You want a bad guy for your good guy to prevail against. “Oh, we’ve got to get to the next explosion.” Or, “we’ve got to turn over cards,” as network executives are fond of saying. After vetting by Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus chooses Werner over an overly confident French engineer because of his awareness and frank explanation of the difficulties involved in the construction. Walt, Jesse, and Mike are then forced to dispose of Victor's body using hydrofluoric acid, echoing Walt and Jesse's previous experience with Emilio. [66] In one instance, when Daniel Wormald desires to have a bodyguard when he carries out a drug deal with Nacho Varga, he contacts Caldera, who puts three individuals including Mike Ehrmantraut in touch with Wormald. Forenall is arrested after Hank and Gomez arrive at Madrigal's warehouse in Houston and Lydia identifies him in the warehouse. Walter convinces them to spare their lives if he teaches them his meth formula. Walt realizes that Gus plans to replace him and has Jesse locate Gale's address so that Walt can kill him to ensure Gus still requires Jesse and Walt's services. Leonel died, and Mike quietly disposed of the syringe he used, unnoticed by the police officers nearby. That is the one time we explicitly state that Walter White is not in a hospital room somewhere recuperating from his gunshot wound. Per Gus's instructions, he provides Mike with cocaine to prepare a trap for Hector's smugglers when they cross the border. It was the first time in a long time I wrote something by myself, though I got a lot of good notes from Peter Gould and the other writers after. But anyway, it was about having someone in the present for Jesse to prevail against. After moving to the US, Gus sets up a college scholarship in Max's name (which Gale Boetticher won one year) and determines to avenge his friend's death. Victor told Gus, who contacted the cousins telling them to abort, so they left without Walter knowing they had been there. Following the deaths of Juan Bolsa and the Cousins, and Gus's subsequent establishment of the superlab, Don Eladio orders retribution through his henchman Gaff, hijacking meth deliveries and killing some of Gus's operatives. Cartel operatives cut off his head and place it atop a tortoise (tortuga is Spanish for "tortoise") with "HOLA DEA" ("Hello DEA") written across its shell. The two reasons I wanted to do this movie were, first and foremost, working with Aaron again, but, after that, when I realized that Todd could be an integral part of it. The team reluctantly keeps Todd employed after the murder, accepting his explanation that he assumed there could be no witnesses to the crime or they all risked arrest. Wachsberger first appears as he and Mike are going through the New Mexico Department of Corrections facility at Los Lunas south of Albuquerque. To keep Daniel from talking to police, Mike offers to retrieve the baseball cards. Feeling betrayed Jr. calls 911 when Walt fends off Skyler's knife attack, thus forcing Walt to leave and eventually end up on the most wanted list. As Jesse proposes Krazy-8 to manage the distribution of the superior quality methamphetamine he produced with his new partner, he realized that Emilio made bail. In El Camino, when Jesse calls his parents he asks about Jake, and they tell Jesse that Jake is attending a band camp in London. We couldn’t do it all in flashback, because flashback is the past; we need someone in the present. Lydia complains to Gus, but he tells Lydia to let Mike be, leading Mike to help serve Gus as one of his own lead security men. Jane Margolis (played by Krysten Ritter) is Jesse's attractive neighbour, landlady, and lover. In El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Jesse writes a letter to Brock as he prepares to leave for a new life in Alaska with Brock being the only person he shows any interest in communicating with. Before moving to Albuquerque, Kuby was involved in organized crime in Boston.[61]. According to the note he left behind, he plans to visit with his wife and then return to finish the work. However, while in prison, Tuco stabs another inmate and injures a corrections officer, adding more time to his sentence. While not yet a kingpin himself, Nacho is bright and has the ear of his terrifying boss. Victor (played by Jeremiah Bitsui) is Gus's loyal henchman. Ed recognizes Saul and agrees to a second extraction, warning that it will cost him double. After Badger is arrested and Combo is killed, Pete quits dealing for Jesse, fearing being sent back to prison and for his own safety. In the final season's episode "Confessions" Jesse suddenly changes his mind about leaving town and assuming a new identity when he realizes Walt poisoned Brock. We knew then that something very special and dear to us was coming to an end. [26] After Gus's death, Chow starts being questioned by the DEA, as he was on Gus's payroll at the time of Gus's murder. She then urges Hank "to get" Walter. Gus secretly sanctions an attack on Hank instead of Walter, resulting in severe injuries to Hank and the deaths of The Cousins. Marco shot Hank twice in the chest, but rather than finish him off with another shot, Marco returned to his car for an axe. Someone in that office leaked it. Kinda dreary. He is involved in investigating a meth dealer known as "Heisenberg," unaware for over a year that his prey is actually Walter. He is in constant contact with Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, who tells him which containers she has taken off the manifests, which he sends to Golden Moth Chemical Company in Albuquerque, which in turn forwards them on to Lavanderia Brilliante and Gus's lab. Though it was not used in the film, several critics speculated after the premiere that the scene likely occurred after Skinny Pete parted ways with Jesse, making this his final chronological appearance. However, despite outward appearances, Gus is a major drug kingpin initially affiliated with the Mexican drug cartel in Ciudad Juárez, who uses his restaurants as a front for methamphetamine distribution throughout the American southwest. Maybe I’m reading more into Mr. King’s quote than he put into it, but it really did stick with me — the idea that you can show somebody in the midst of process, of getting from A to B to Z, you can get down to that micro level. Before hanging up, Jesse tells his parents they did their best when raising him, and the life he has led and the problems he has caused are his fault, not theirs. But I always did wonder who built the dog run Jesse was chained to. After Walt and Jesse witness him brutally assault and murder one of his henchmen, they plan to poison him by coating their next delivery of meth with ricin. During the ensuing scuffle, Jesse shoots Tuco in the abdomen. Mike says he will do it himself and convinces Werner to contact his wife at the airport and send her home. Plemons as Todd in ‘El Camino.’ Photo: Ben Rothstein/Netflix, So no, I never thought the character of Todd would be that important. His reasons for leaving the Philadelphia police are never specified during Breaking Bad, but given his story to Walt about missing a chance to kill an abusive perpetrator who eventually murdered a victim Mike was trying to help, and Hank's refusal to bring up the reason for Mike's departure from the police, it is implied that Mike decided to take revenge against the abuser, which resulted in Mike's departure. Skyler has an affair with Ted in season three to exact revenge against Walt, but ignores Ted's offer to leave some of her things at his house. ', “This is probably not something I should be saying to you, but this movie, strictly speaking, does not need to exist.”. He aids Walt and Jesse on several occasions by using his car crusher in addition to sharing his knowledge of the legal limits on police procedure and evidence gathering. Combo is later killed in "Mandala" when a rival drug group corners him while he is dealing methamphetamine on "foreign turf." In Season 3, Walt makes an awkward pass at her (as an attempt at "revenge" for Skyler's infidelity with Ted), resulting in him being placed on an indefinite sabbatical. He’d do it the scientific way. Following his violent death at the hands of Walt, the DEA begins investigating the link between Gus and Madrigal. He also is the one to drive Gus to the retirement home. 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