Ah, ok. Anyway I was pretty amazed by that. Gus offered him so much freaking money and it’s gone.
Well, bear in mind Walt didn’t work for Gus more than a couple months. The $7.5 million per year sounds impressive but decidedly less so when divided by 4. Plus, car wash was almost a cool mil and another half mil to IFT.
Tio called Gus “Generalissimo”? I definitely don’t remember that.
The playset was there in plain sight when Walt went to Gus’ house for dinner. Walt even took a second glance at the table and chairs and toys. Gus said he was cooking a traditional Chilean meal, but the kids (yes more than one) won’t eat it.
I don’t think the house is Gus’ house as the kitchen cabinets in Gus’ house are dark, they are light in Lydia’s home .
But I’m still thinking Lydia could be Gus’ baby mommy, she’s a single mother closest to the business. And there is a pattern on this show, spare a life and all kinds of trouble starts.
Mike went again with a half measure, probably to be a pragmatist about getting the business started again, but no doubt she’ll want a taste of it
What do you mean by this? Do you think that she wasn’t getting paid before or that Mike doesn’t expect to pay her now?
I can’t confirm which episode it was in - it was a flashback to Mexico, obviously, since present-day Hector was nonverbal - but the Internet does confirm that he called Gus “Grand Generalissimo.” I don’t really need to know the details of Gus’ old life; what they gave us was enough. I assume he was connected to the Pinochet government in some reasonably significant way. I could believe he was in the military in some capacity. He was certainly organized and extremely disciplined, and he had no compunction about using violence, so he probably did not have to learn to get violent when he started in the drug trade.
She’ll expect a healthy payment for the ingredient to make the Meth, at the very least, but more likely a cut of the business as well. Mike spared her life so he probably won’t want to pay her too. She may need to cut a deal with Walt and Jesse.
This statement is without context, which is why I asked you to clarify. Why do you consider this significant?
Presumably she was getting a healthy payment before and Mike expects her to get a healthy payment now.
The fact that you mentioned this implies that you believe that either she wasn’t getting a healthy payment before or that Mike believes she won’t want a healthy payment now.
Otherwise, so what?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Walt’s infant daughter and not Walt Jr ends up ingesting the ricin somehow. A bit of a closer parallel to what Walt did.
But I’d be kidding if said I ever predicted anything correctly on this show…
I think it’s a fascinating way to connect Gus with at least some German thugs, who may well have inflitrated a respectable company. If he were a general in the Pinochet govt, he’d be one bad mofo, and he’d definitely need to change his identity to get into America. Hank thought it was all strange, not so strange if you’re part of a military killing machine that pissed on human rights.
I think even this show would probably hesitate at using the White children that way. There would be a very good chance it wouldn’t be dramatic- it’d just be manipulative and awful. But yes, it’s hard not to think that ricin is going to show up again at some point. Walt could have buried it or something but he couldn’t flush it into the water supply.
Possibly. I’m not sure about the Germany-Argentina connection since we’re not talking about Nazis here. We’re talking about guys who were probably in their 50s. But this was an interesting way to make the drug business even more international.
Ugh. That would be the most heinous, but I guess not out of the realm of possibility.
Can someone please tell me what Walt said to Schuyler in bed? I couldn’t understand a word he said.
Considering that ricin occurs naturally in castor plants, can it be that hard to get rid of?
So what? Money is the motivator of all action on this show. She’s going to want to maintain whatever lifestyle her association with Gus has kept her in. Being an executive at Madrigal is not be the only dividend she’s been paid.
There were Nazis, many of them in Chile, not just Argentina. It was the Nazi sympathizers and other ultra right wing nuts that propped up the Pinochet regime.
Are you really not understanding what I’m asking you? Everybody in the drug business gets paid. Why did you think it important to emphasize that *Lydia *will want to get paid? How is it any different than anyone else that Mike and Walt are involved with?
You said it as if it would come as a surprise to Mike that she would want to get paid.
Again, why did you bring it up? Why do you think that Lydia’s desire for money is somehow a factor that has significance over anyone else’s desire for money?
It was a pretty creepy scene. I don’t remember his exact words, but he was trying to get her to look at the Ted situation another way. Partial quote from The AV Club recap:
End of episode. It was very creepy and an attempt at a literal seduction, although it didn’t look like she was buying it when they cut to black. She was still horrified by her “Walt” moment at the hospital- seeing that Ted just looked at her as somebody who might kill him if he blabbed. Skyler certainly went from warm to cold in a big hurry during that scene.
I understand that. But that’s not the only way Gus could’ve gotten into business with a Germany company, that’s all I’m saying.
There are alternatives to her getting the ingredient in return for money, I think: “Get me some methylamine or I’ll kill you” and “Give me the name of your methylamine source.” Ultimately I would not be surprised if Lydia wants a piece of their business.
Count me as someone that thinks Lydia is going to end up as a 4th partner. Probably a silent partner based on part of the conversation shown in the previews for next week (NOT A SPOILER).
I went back and watched, and the Generalissimo comment is in the episode “One Minute” where Tio almost drowns one of the twins:
Hector: Why? Why is this still under discussion? No, no, no. I don’t like him. I don’t care who he knows. We’re supposed to trust him with our product? Big man. Big Generalissimo! Big fry cook is more like it… The “Chicken Man.” You will do what you want. But you have my vote. Never trust a South America (sudaca). Dirty, dirty people.
I totally missed the significance of this at the time, probably because it wasn’t until 12 episodes later that we got the payoff to this quote. Damn, Vincent Gilligan is patient. (And a genius.)
No doubt there’s lots of ways a Chilean national would work for a German Company, but given the illegal operation, the fact that he most likely was in the Military under Pinochet, and that he was somehow protected by from being killed by the cartel, while his friend’s head is bleeding into the swimming pool, makes me believe the tentacles of the Pinochet regime which included heavily armed neo-Nazi sympathizers made it possible for him to stay alive in Mexico in the 1980’s