And arguably, the reveal that he does feel emotion – real, deep-seated emotion, enough emotion to motivate a lethal confrontation with a drug cartel – makes him far, far dangerous than we had previously thought. You’ve run out of free articles. Both techniques are effective at getting you hooked, but it’s arguably rare for a show to marry quality with a truly dense and exciting mythology, and if it has, it’s certainly never been done with the same degree of effectiveness as in Breaking Bad. NEXT: What does this Swimming Pool of Death suggest about Walt’s future?

We may never know.” But we do know. Watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 8 - Hermanos. Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview. Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview. As Mike tells Gus this episode, “Schrader and the Mexicans at the same time—if he’s watching when they make a move, it could be the perfect storm.”  Do you think the writers are teasing an eventual showdown in which Walt is going to have to choose whether or not he saves Hank’s life? Walt learned of Hank's suspicions this week, as the latter used his brother-in-law to plant a GPS device on Gus' car. This week, Walt Jr. asks if his dad got the results back from his doctor. So if you haven’t yet watched “Hermanos,” come back when you have and share your thoughts and theories.].

This new complication compels Walt to attempt to speed up his and Jesse’s plan to take out Walt – however, Jesse’s fragile mental state and Walt’s increasingly fervent paranoia don’t leave either of them in a good position to take down the fearsome Gus. Breaking Bad S4, E8 Hermanos Skyler develops an unusual solution to her money troubles. When the guy complains that God has waylaid his plans to start a family and become an entrepreneur, Walt’s enraged that he’s giving up control and not living on his own terms. In truth, there are few things in TV more thrilling than a long-awaited mythology episode, where the back story of a mysterious character is revealed, or we get to see how our favourite characters met. Also, both were fiercely loyal to Gus. No wonder the cartel’s old leader, Don Eladio, tells Gus during the bloody swimming pool flashback, “The only reason you’re alive and [your partner] is dead is that I know who you are.”, Speaking of that flashback, if there’s one thing that Breaking Bad has taught us, it’s that any time a character looks like he’s going to get killed, you should start praying for the guy who’s sitting next to him. The quality HBO/AMC/cable shows do this either by a rigid social or historical verisimilitude (seen in shows like The Wire and Mad Men) and/or the kind of intricate, pervasive character work that makes the characters (and therefore the plot) as fascinatingly unpredictable as people in real life usually are. That was certainly the case for Max. We flashed back to a meeting he had with the head of the Mexican cartel, in which he and his chef pal proposed their meth operation.

Interesting that Walt delivers his own version of a sangre por sangre speech after he gets caught planting Hank’s GPS tracker on Gus’s car. Though June and I had both been longing for more back story on Walter White this season, I was still partially satiated by the flashbacks from Gus’s past.

Both got involved with meth. Gus’s brother says that Gus rescued him from the streets of Santiago, Chile.

But you know what else is loyal?

But the genius of Breaking Bad is that it suggests that cliche couldn’t be more wrong.

Hank’s certainly got Gus pegged as his man, and enlists an unsuspecting Walt to help him plant a tracking device on Gus’ car (in a nicely subtle payoff to one this season’s running gags, when Walt asks about the mineral fair, Hank counters with “We ain’t going to no goddamn rock show.”). Gus knows this, as evidenced by his stony face and almost imperceptible hand twitching in the lift post-interview. When Marie tells Skyler, “You’ve really taken to this being your own boss thing!” it’s clear that Walt’s only the second-in-command over there. This was followed by one of my favourite moments of the episode, where a completely discombobulated Walt stumbled into Los Pollos Ermanos and mumbled incoherent apologies to a smiling Gus, who replies with a magnificently strained, “Do it” through teeth gritted so hard it looked like his jaw bone is about to snap. Things are permanently on the cusp of erupting into violence, as we saw in the Gus flashback, and things can never be the same afterwards. The network shows have more time to fill, but contradictorily, due to advertising and executive restraints, they can’t spend as much time (in theory) on long scenes of character development, so shows like Lost,  The X-Files, Fringe and Buffy rely on an elaborate, comic-book like mythology, often centred around a central mystery in order to intrigue viewers. Watch Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 8 - Hermanos. Of course, the biggest thing that’s beyond Walt’s control is cancer. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Are the writers trying to tell us something? .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}, Could this be the finest episode of Breaking Bad so far? “Every life comes with a death sentence,” Walt seethes.

Updated Mar 31, 2019; Posted Sep 05, 2011 . and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. And then there’s Hank. ).

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