I would, but it’s impolite to dress in blackface.
Giancarlo Esposito is half black, and Gus has half a face, so at most you’d only be a quarter rude and for many of us that’s well below our average.
No, he didn’t. I just checked the scene and what he says is “We may have a problem. I’ve got eyes on the DEA. They just had a visitor - Hector Salamanca”.
Saying you’ve got “eyes on” something is standard lingo for “visual contact”, i.e. I’m looking straight at it with my own eyes.
He wasn’t watching the DEA. He was watching Hank. That was the point of Hector calling Hank in and refusing to speak to anyone else. To draw Gus’ attention.
Damn thats funny.
Personally, as an OCD engineering type I ain’t happy unless my rudeness drives are running at better than 99.6 percent efficiency. Suck on that LaForge…
That was really confusing. In the previews from the previous week (4.12) it sounded like he said “I’ve got eyes in the DEA” and then they showed Gomez and implied (to me at least) that Gomez was a mole. I mentioned that in last weeks thread.
Until I realized what was going on, I didn’t trust Gomez at all in this episode and really thought he was just trying to get Hank out of the house. Whether or not the preview from last week was specifically designed to have you doubting Gomez and build up tension in that scene…I don’t know. On the one hand it worked, OTOH it made me blow off everything Gomez has said all season until it was explained.
Interesting tidbit. The drug dog that Gomez had was real (complete with ABQ PD handler) and they made sure to let all the Breaking Bad employees know that if any of them ever bring anything illicit on the set with them that would be the day to think about leaving it in their car or at home.
Also, originally the laundry guy consented to the search to Gomez but their DEA consultant said when someone verbally consents to a DEA search all present members have to hear it. So Vince quickly added in the line where Gomez asked the laundry guy to make sure they guy by the Tahoe could hear it as well.
That’s one of the reasons I avoid those “next week on…” type previews and appreciate when people spoiler box them. Thinking that all episode would’ve bothered me, I would’ve been wondering when Gomez was going to make his big appearance.
Breaking Bad really isn’t too bad with misleading spoilers. This is one of the few times where that’s happened.
Soprano’s on the other hand was so bad it got to the point where I knew that what ever I saw, it would be the opposite happening. I still remember one where they showed someone pointing a gun, cut to Anthony cowering away, cut back to the guy with the gun shooting (I may have the details wrong here). It was pretty clear from the preview and what was going on in that episode that Anthony was shot. In reality, the person with the gun was just shooting into the ground and Anthony had nothing to do with that scene at all. (Or maybe they were shooting his car, I don’t remember). It was almost comical the way they put their previews together.
Except there’s nothing misleading about it if you understood what he said. “Eyes on” is a very common expression in military-like contexts, but nobody says “eyes in” in the way you were assuming. So it just stemmed from you being unfamiliar with the term.
I know, I even listened to it a few times because it didn’t make sense to me. But, to me, “eyes in the DEA” and then showing Gomez implied Tyrus somehow managed to get Gomez on the payroll and he was letting Gus know. And that didn’t make sense either since Gus would take care of something like that, not Tyrus.
Which just goes back to what I was saying, that BB doesn’t really mislead with the previews. In fact, I think they steer pretty clear of red herrings altogether.
Walt sees a plant that can poison a kid (a kid that he saw for the first time the night before, and probably had no more than 20 minutes of screen time up until now). So he gets Saul to call Jesse to his office and the bumbling security guard not only lifts the pack of cigarettes (he either somehow knew the right pocket, or managed to try each one until he found it), but then replaces them with an identical pack, all without Jesse noticing. All with what appears to be a bunch of random swatting motions (“frisking”).
Then Walt somehow poisons the kid. How? I guess he somehow sneaked in their house and poisoned his food or something . Apparently this was too trivial of a detail to explain. Of course, he did this because he somehow knew Jesse would blame him (which makes absolutely no sense). But he also knew that he could convince Jesse that Gus actually poisoned the kid (which is just stupid).
Anyway, the first plan to blow up Gus fails. Thankfully Walt knows that Gus has someone constantly watching the DEA office at all times. How? … So, Walt gets Hector to stop by the DEA, because he knows, based on a few sentence third hand account from Saul, Gus will definitely show up in person to kill Hector. When he gets there Walt blows him up. All because he poisoned that kid.
Gus has somebody watching Hank, because he’s planning on killing Hank. That’s why Hector only wants to talk to Hank.
Is that what you were confused about?
Walt knows Tyrus follows Hank around. That’s why Hector didn’t want to speak to anybody but Hank. Walt knew that Tyrus would follow Hank to the DEA and see Hector there.
Okay, I missed that, thanks.
NM, this is why you refresh the thread before posting…
It’s still a big gamble that Hector would leave before Hank and that Tyrus would see him. Hank may have said “Fuckit, I’m outta here” or Tyrus may have missed him since he wasn’t watching for Hector or not seen him if a wheel chair accessible van had pulled around and blocked his view. But I suppose that’s what suspension of disbelief is all about.
No plan is completely fool proof. There are going to be risks involved in any plan.
I think this is the first plan of Walt’s that has gone smoothly. All his other plans with Jesse have gone completely haywire, so it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if this one went wrong as well.
I guess it just shows that to get one step ahead of Gus you need to think ten steps ahead of him and have everything work according to plan.
I would watch the hell out of that if it were a spin-off show
I know it would have made for a much less entertaining episode, but why wouldn’t Walt simply snipe Gus from the bushes* at the nursing home as he approached it to off Hector?
This would be not without risks, obviously, but a safer plan than the long, convoluted, messy, the-stars-must-all-align scenario he opted for.
mmm
*This is just one example. There must be 50 Ways To Whack Your Drug Lord.
Yeah, I had the same thought. Or torch his house with a souped-up, chemistryified Molotov cocktail. Or send a suitcase bomb to the chicken place via courier. Or sneak some poison into the HVAC unit at his house in the middle of the night. Chance of success for each of these plans varies, but I gotta figure even the stupidest of them has a much, much higher chance of success than the “(1) Poison some kid I just met somehow (2) ??? (3) Profit!” plan the writers ended up going with.
Can’t help but agree. The biggest problem with Walt’s plot is the berries, getting them to Andrea’s house, in a form that would ensure they’d be eaten within a few hours.