That would not be, however, the last we saw of Gus. Because once seated across from Hector, set to end his longtime adversary’s life with an injection, he realized – a microsecond too late – that Walt had rigged the wheelchair bell to the homemade bomb. That led Mike’s fill-in, Tyrus, to alert Gus, who grew incensed and determined to neutralize Hector once and for all, now that he had snuffed everyone the old man cared about.īut Gus’ thirst for his own great revenge would be his undoing. There, he merely toyed with and taunted Hank & Co., yet for Walter’s purposes he created the illusion that he had spoken to the feds. Hector shortly thereafter rang for his nurse, and requested a sit-down at the DEA office. There, Walt told the twitching, wheezing onetime crime lord, “I know you despise me,… but I’m willing to bet that I know a man you hate even more.” With those words, sweetened by the promise of revenge, Walt found a most unlikely ally. Thanks to his discreet tête-à-tête with Saul, Walt learned that Gus had been visiting Tio Salamanca at the nursing home. That Jesse escaped that predicament at all is only due to the fact that it wasn’t ricin at the root of the kid’s poisoning - but that’s a story for further down in this recap. Jesse tried to claim that he had, like, simply heard about ricin recently, but his questioners weren’t buying it. Jesse meanwhile found himself having some ‘splaining to do, to some cops who were rather curious about the “Ricin!” alert he blurted to Brock’s mother. To secure that “ransom” for Saul’s top-secret phone number, Walt craftily employed a neighbor to send Gus’ watchmen scampering, affording him a brief window to sneak into his home, get under the foundation and grab some greenbacks – narrowly eluding the returning thugs.

Breaking bad season 1 episode 4 recap