His downfall was trying to threaten Jesse and Walt by killing Victor. He should have known the lengths they would go to to feel safe from someone like Gus who they fear.
I love how all he says is "I kept it. It lived for quite some time." What the audience can imagine he did to it during that time is far scarier than any explanation that could have been added.
Even the worst serial killers sometimes have compassion for animals. Gus could've killed it and ate it if he was so hungry. BCS paints Gus in a much less favorable light than BrBa did.
@@pecoliky8793 the viewer is given insight into Gus' past that has never been revealed thus far, ties it into his characterisation and links it to his need for vengeance against Hector. It's a very well written monologue magnificently performed by Giancarlo.
It actually kind of starts off like Gus is saying he cares about Hector - Hector is the tree, broken and weak, but Gus helps it back to health. Then Gus reveals Hector isn't the tree, he's the Coati, and Gus isn't going to let him die without torturing him first.
@@shuttlecrossing1433 Gus is sick. He acts so nice and polite, but even as a child, even before his trauma from the c a r t e l, he was t o r t u r i n g helpless animals, like Jeffrey Dahmer
@@AmirKhan-yv8jm I mean the human body can hear it. The vibrations pass through to the ear canal. I don’t know whether hector is indeed processing that information at all.
Just so you know, there are no coatis in Chile. Its not part of the wildlife, so this scene in my opinion makes even more mysterious the origins of Gus, who he is and what he did in his past
That is interesting. However, the Chilean accent in Spanish is one of the most distinctive (to the point that even native Spanish speakers have a hard time understanding Chilean Spanish.) Both of these things could simply be oversights by the writers.
@@mortson978 you made it sound like Chilean Spanish can't even be understand, yes there are some people who speaks poorly and uses alot of unique words and expressions, but that is present in every country. I don't know if Chilean accent is that recognized in other parts. Gus is not Chilean.
@@Ariel1Dominguez you're probably right, but my point was that in the context of the show, if gus was going to lie about where he was from, he probably would have picked a less distinctive accent. That being said, it is an American show for American audiences, so the writers probably didn't care too much about that.
@@tre-vort-ni5189 I don’t really think it was a mistake though, like really, you could say “a coati is part of the wildlife” and it would be a fact in every country in southamerica, except for Chile. And it really doesn’t make sense for me, since before in Breaking Bad they did came up with some specific things about Chile, like Paila Marina, Pinochet’s dictatorship and Chemical Engineering in USACH. And besides, this dialogue comes up like from nowhere in the show, it was made only with the intention of showing Gus personality when it comes to protect what he worked for and giving us a hint of his past.
"Finally, I caught it, it showed itself, it was hungry...unfortunately the coati had a hidden bomb and blew itself and half my face up, I use prostetics to this day"
The benefit of being a prequel allows “Better Call Saul” to show Gus at the height of his power - as he’s slowly consolidating his empire and plotting his revenge. Since we know where his journey ends, this story can delve deeper into his psychology. They practically portray Gus as the devil himself. Even the way he’s lit and filmed in this scene. They mystify the character - and Giancarlo’s performance brings it all together.
They dont really portray him as the devil as much as someone who is cut throat to exact his revenge on the cartel and hector who are actually much darker personalities...
I theorize this speech is what healed Hector, you see, the doctor spoke on how stimulation of the brain specifically from loved ones, was key in healing brain damage, hate is very similar to love. Given how little love Hector had and how much hate he had, especially for Fring, I think this was what woke him up.
Hate and love are two sides of the same coin. Most people believe hate and love are antithetical to each other, but really apathy is the true antithesis to both.
I always imagined Gus before Max always had a violent side to him, but Max probably calmed down his impulse and violence. Taking Max away made him go ful measure
Gus' method of revenge echoes Talia Al Ghul's comments to Batman; it's the slow knife that cuts the deepest. Taking out your revenge in one explosive burst, whilst tempting for the majority of people, isn't as satisfying in the long run. Gus has realised this and knows how to package it out in just the right amounts. It's tragically sinister to devote this much time to vengeance, but oh so beautifully crafted.
@@albertobellini98 I don't think Batman is trash. I think they get really creative like the Batman Who Laughs for example. How he can have your dead mother in his belt & when he releases her she gives you a hug that literally kills you.
@M the 2nd one would be good so Bryan cranson and Aaron Paul could return be so good they should have called better call saul Saul Goodman A Breaking Bad Series and gone through characters like that
“I thought it probably was a COATI - have you ever seen one?” 2:32 After I saw that scene in the show I walked around saying “coati coati coati coati” in my head for hours. Also - Gus is a frigging psychopath.
Gus talking about his past life to Salamanca is probably one of the best things ever. For a villain whose past life is shrouded in mystery, I was actually interested in listening to his story.
The cool thing about this scene is it's actually a metaphor for their relationship, the tree that he nurtured is Gus' former partner that was killed and the coati is Hector
It also references Jimmy's fixations, his obsessive drive. What his drive is exactly is harder to say. I think it's to not be a scammer, at least not as bad as Slippin' Jimmy, but to channel that selling ability into something more legitimate.
Indeed it is. Namely in the part where he tended to the tree, and never tasted something so sweet. His first time experiencing love, and the joy of it.
The best revenge is knowing a person is invalid and just torture them for the rest of their life and as you do let them know that they brought this on themselves.
One reason I love Better Call Saul is because it shows Gus as more of an actual villain. For most of the time in Breaking Bad, except for a couple of individual scenes, he seems more like a businessman whose business happens to be crime. In BCS we actually get to see more of his cruel, evil and ruthless side
This is a perfect analogy for Gus and Hector's relationship: Gus has something that brings him profit and joy (the tree and Max), the coati steals it from him (killing Max), so Gus waits and waits for the chance, and takes control of it (bankrolling Hector's treatment) so he can prolong his torture and revenge (leaving Hector able to think but paralysed and unable to move).
Spot on. Other youtubers treat this as a legitimate claim to his backstory, but it's clear that Gus is spinning a metaphor. Perhaps there is truth in the details, that Gus grew up in that third world poverty, but it's obvious that Gus is explaining what's going down to Hector and by spinning metaphor, eases the risk of eavesdropping in a public place (hospital room). Many seem to miss point for being so infatuated with the genius writing to the point of basing entire YT channels around it.
@@monasteryfounderI’m late but to add on to ur point it should be noted that coatis don’t even live in Chile, so the fact that he can be lying about this story as a way to spin it into a metaphor about Hector is more spot on, or the writers messed that detail up, or Gus was lying about even being from Chile which also doesn’t really add up, so it could be that this story is fake
Yeah, people get upset that I shoot prairie dogs off my land. "But they're so cute!". Yeah, until you've spent 4 hours in the freezing mud trying to get your truck out of a hole they dug in your road. At least I make clean headshots and don't torment them. Out in the real world you gotta do what you gotta do.
That hospital room is going to be his tomb,I remember when I first saw the death of Gus(I remembered rewinding it about 50 times,from when he got out the car,to when he entered the room). It was one of those scenes that just stood with me.
Lowkey scary how he says "I kept it, it lived for quite some time." And that's all he has to share about the coati after he caught it. No details about what torments and horros he put it through, that's all left to the audience's imagination.
He probably didn't torture it any more. Just like he doesn't physically torture Hector. He probably left it in a cage with its broken leg, fed it, kept it alive. And just took sadistic pleasure knowing it was trapped.
The story at first kind of starts off like Gus is saying he cares about Hector - Hector is the tree, broken and weak, but Gus helps it back to health. It seems odd, as if he's still keeping up the persona. But then Gus reveals Hector isn't the tree, he's the Coati, and Gus isn't going to let him die without torturing him first. This is the first time Gus ever admits the truth to Hector's face.
It was implied that Gus was involved with the Pinochet government. High enough to scare a cartel boss in his own turf. I think he was some kind of black ops director. And I think he was intimately involved with the interrogations.....
@@georgekostaras Yes it would require a special sort of man for that kind of work. But there were early signs. How many kids systematically stalk capture and torture an animal to death for revenge.
Reading about all the incredibly sadistic sexual assault that was institutionalized by the Pinochet regime for use against political prisoners just adds a whole other dimension of disturbing to what might've gone on in his past . . .
@@nikosgreek352 The Coati story was clearly poetic metaphor describing the past and future between Hector and Gus. We can't concretely say that any of it is factually based on his own life. How do so many people keep missing the obvious, in the face of unironic, "Bravo, Vince."
I feel still like Gus won in the long run. Even though he eventually killed him but Hector still had to spend the last years of his life as a vegetable to only see his family and everybody cared about killed.
@@jafetlamadrid2759 Death does not mean a loss, just look at Walt. He defeated all of his enemies that dared to cross him, even though it resulted in his death, he still won.
Though this is just a story, and we don't actually get to see what Gus describes, his story is potentially chronologically the FIRST EVER thing to happen in the ENTIRE Breaking Bad universe - tied with the flashback scene of Chuck reading Jimmy the book in the tent. Both take place in the 1960's - although the exact year(s) are never specified
I don’t know if this counts, but Chucks post-death letter does mention watching Jimmy (as a newborn) come home from the hospital. This would have happened before both the reading scene and this story, late 50s/early 60s!
In BrBa I actually saw Gus as a brutal yet honorable man however this story and the way he treated Nacho for simply trying to protect his father, show me that Gus is almost just as monsterous as Hector. Even serial killers sometimes have compassion for animals.
cant imagine applauding serial killers because "look they love le cute animals!". the fact that you would even consider this to be a redeeming quality despite the fact that they are serial killers who take human lives show that you value the lives of animals above the lives of humans. this is literally nothing, its the life of an animal who doesnt know its place. youre disgusting and dont deserve the benefits which come with being human.
@@giangonzalez6385 a serial killer is a murderer who has killed three or more persons, Gus killed victor, lalo, that dude that he suffocated, and don eladio, Gus fring is definitely a serial killer.
@@bretnomcdonald32 Gus Is far worse than a serial killer; he's a capitalist who did what was the best for his bussness in a environment without regulations.
Sorry guys I did not have time to watch the full clip, but I watched the last 20 seconds. What a caring man, putting their feud behind him and wishing him to recover and wake up.
I personally believe they should have held off on Hector's stroke for a few more seasons at least. Assuming of course that BCS is going to be around for a while. I like to idea of having a fully healthy Hector as an antagonist throughout the series because it gives us some more insight into Hector's character. In Breaking Bad we mostly got to see him as an old man in a wheelchair with a bell, and only healthy in flashbacks, but Better Call Saul takes place 5 years before Breaking Bad I think so they could have built an interesting story arc for Hector too. I think getting to see a healthy Hector running things and how he builds his feud with Gus would have been great to see. It also would have allowed us to chance to see more of Mark Margolis in a more productive role.
I understand where you're coming from, but I think having Lalo as the big bad is gonna be very exciting. He's not like any threat Mike and Gus have faced thus far.
They kept Hector normal long enough to establish a deeper definition of his villainy and blossom the rivalry between he and Gustavo. However, in order for us to understand Gustavo for what he is, Hector needed to be the “crippled little rata” long enough to see the depth within Gustavo’s heart...
I just want to know who he was in Chile, the whole reason he wasn’t shot in BB flashback was “I know who you are but this isn’t Chile” give us the full backstory
I think he was a general under Pinochet's Regime in Chile. However, Peter Schuler might've helped him escape and Gus went to North America and got rid of all connections to his past. That's why Hank and the DEA weren't able to find anything about him in Breaking Bad
@@WhyTho525 I've heard the theory that Gus was initially under the protection of the British armed forces. Pinochet provided support for the British counter invasion of the Falkland islands. Gus was one of the generals who formed connections within the British military or did something for them they felt they owed him a favour. Gus and his boyfriend were offered a new life in a less homophobic part of the world. This also explains why ABP homicide and the DEA cannot find any record of Gus before his time in America. It was an off the books deal made between the UK and US armed forces.
@@WhyTho525 Honestly when I first read it, I was a bit like "it does make sense, the timeline actually adds up but it seems a little bit implausible" but when you really think about it. The Cartel might've known that Gus was considered important to the British or American governments or at least untouchable. That if they killed Gus, the UK or US might just feel compelled to do something about the Cartel. But his boyfriend, was just a chemist and of no importance to state. We know the Cartel knew he was a general for Pinochet because Hector calls him Generalissimo. It actually does explain quite a lot.
If I’m not mistaken, I think the next time we see Hector from here, he is recovered, I think it’s after the time skip in episode 7. I always imagine that it was this dialogue from Gus that brought woke him up, gave him just the right spur of hate
Gus is truly a sick and terrifying individual. The Coati seemingly did nothing to him. Found a tree with fruit on it to eat and gets tortured for who knows how long because of it. There is something frightening about a man who can seem so... Fragile, easy going, softly spoken, calm and accommodating, only to turn into the most hideous of monsters... It's like he needs to inflict physical, mental and emotional pain but doesn't seem to gain anything from it. Really hard to describe it. More than a couple of screws loose, that's for sure
I disagree with this, didn't you hear that Gus said. His family grew up in poverty, he was starving and he wanted to support his family. The lucuma tree was his hardwork, pride and achivement. He was able to sell the lucuma tree which helped to feed his starving family, buy new clothes and get in more income. But now this coati comes in and destroy his hardwork, kills his income source and brought days of starving to his family. I don't find Gus evil at all for torturing the coati for bringing Gus life back to desperation and days of starving. If you grew up in poverty and had to go on days in a shavk with not even s decent meal then you would obviously do the same to that coati who destroyed ur achivement, hardwork and harms your family just like Gus did.
The funny thing Gus took care of Hector more than his family. He saved his life, inspects his recovery and tell him bed time stories and that made Hector decide to die along side with Gus😂
What i think is mezmerising about gus is that underneath the bland cheerful robotic demanour is someone totally out of controt of their emotions but somehow has the will to hide it from everyone. I hope one day Vince releases his real childhood backstory & along with that recipe!
What a great backstory, it just goes to show that even at such a young age, Gus always has this darkness in him, letting the Coati starved and suffer is really brutal.
I love how him having his own tree and keeping its fruits is analogous to his secret meth project. And while it's obvious the coati is implied to be a surrogate for Hector, it somehow makes me think of Walt: "it knew I was there, but it was hungry..." Little did Gus know what a mistake it was to keep THAT coati alive.
imagine this; you were a starving poor seven year old and took so much time and energy to watering and caring for a Leukemia tree. Providing for yourself food, as well as a source of income. That tree is not just that to you, it is something you spent so much time on, it is your pride and joy. You come back to find some coati undid all that work in the span of seconds. You would make it feel pain for as long as possible for taking from your most prized possession. On some level, I understand how Gus feels. Max was someone Gus put through school and helped him achieve his potential. This pride became love and Gus’ real chance at happiness in his grueling life. In the blink of an eye it’s all taken from him. The Cartel adds insult to injury and forces him to look at the corpse of the love of his life. All their plans for the future taken from him. All his potential, squandered because of a slight offense to Eladio. Hector is the one who did the deed so he is the ‘Coati’ he destroyed his ‘Leukemia tree’ and now he will keep him trapped and helpless for as long as possible because a quick death would not be punishment enough for taking his pride and joy.
I like how at first you think he's going to be like "that little plant pulled through and so will you" before it turns to "you killed that fruit and I'm going to keep you alive just for you to suffer."
"I have been told about a certain type of sea snake, that has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie on the ocean bed as if wounded, and it will allow its enemies to come and take little bites of it, and yet, it will lie quite still."
No one is talking about the rest of Gus' family living in that tiny shack listening to him torture the coati for months. "Come on, Gus, we're trying to sleep over here."
I have expected Gus to self-identify with a broken, starving animal, and nurse it back to health, and now it catches rats for him. He shepherded a dying tree, why not husband a dying animal?
The tree didn't wrong him. The animal did. That was to show just how vengeful Gus has been, even as a kid. In any case, it's a wild animal that has found an excellent source of food. It wouldn't stop raiding the tree, killing it quickly is the reasonable solution. You can't make a pet out of a wild animal.
@@J10005 to make it suffer. He said it himself. It's also a metaphor to Hector's situation, that death would be better for him but he will only live for Gus to exact revenge on him.
Whenever Gus is with Hector, he shows his honest-to-god true self, and it’s terrifying. Even with his closest and most trusted man Mike, he wouldn’t do this. He still controls his verbal and physical outputs. But with Hector he is unfiltered (or at least verbally) not because of trust, but because Hector can’t do a damn thing about it Also, I found it weirdly wholesome that he genuinely smiled and had a really fond memory of the tree baring fruit
OK so in case anyone needs an explanation as to what this monologue is thematically meaning: Gus is equating the Salamanca family as the Coati, the Locoma tree as his drug empire, and his ensnaring and slow torture of the Coati is Gus' plan to destroy the Salamancas and the Cartel at large. Rewatch this with that in mind, and then you'll see why he'd even bother telling a guy in a coma his backstory.
"A crippled little Coati. What kind of mammal talks to PETA? No mammal... no mammal at all. Last chance to look at me Coati."
Lol how does this have so few likes?
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What a happy ending. He really wants to wait for Hector to recover. 10/10 on being a loving and gentle man.
A true humanitarian!!!
Ha hah a...
You don't see that every day
Very noble man 😉
“I kept him alive.”
I want Giancarlo Esposito to read bedtime stories as Gus
might be the best way for nightmares every night xD
lol I was thinking that too
.. he has a cool voice .. I like it
Joe Mama
He did
Destiny 1 trailer
"Cool story bro, I held one of my nephews heads underwater for a solid minute to teach my other nephew a lesson"
He taught them both a lesson by doing that.
La Familia Es Todo
Mike "i used to be a beat cop..."
In Japan, heart surgeon number one, steady hands...
@@vutran3758 you win
I love the way Gus goes “have you ever seen one?” And leans forward as if he was actually expecting a response
Pretty sure that was an expressive sarcasm.
My boi sure knows how to troll
Incredible acting by Hector, should've gotten an Emmy solely for that scene.
Lol
😂😂😂😂
but that is not a chilean accent at all, so good acting, terrible accent however.
@@david2012slayer Hector is the guy in the bed
@@keinschlaf288 yeah, I forgot xD
For his performance in this episode, Giancalro Esposito was nominated for an Emmy, and this scene is a perfect reason why.
Gus Fring is quite shady!
The rats and the children follow me out of town.
@@FR4NKM4N this one’s for your children
he should've won
@@FR4NKM4NPied Piper?
Gus's downfall was taking Jesse to the Nursing home. Otherwise Walt would have never learned about his hatred for Hector.
His downfall was trying to threaten Jesse and Walt by killing Victor. He should have known the lengths they would go to to feel safe from someone like Gus who they fear.
His only mistake was not killing walter in the dessert after mexico, jesse hated him already
His mistake was working with Walt.
Ok seems like there were several mistakes
@@vinceb8041 lol
I love how all he says is "I kept it. It lived for quite some time." What the audience can imagine he did to it during that time is far scarier than any explanation that could have been added.
I somehow got the feeling that he just let the coati starve while he watched it die a slow death.
@@whyohwhy9679 Haha it would be lucky to die like that
@@beebag6861 You're probably right!
@@whyohwhy9679 nah he definitely tortured it
Even the worst serial killers sometimes have compassion for animals. Gus could've killed it and ate it if he was so hungry. BCS paints Gus in a much less favorable light than BrBa did.
This scene is so beautifully written. Gus has now revealed his true colours.
Erm not really. This is really too stretched and i knew from the beginning eventually he was referencing hector.
@@pecoliky8793 the viewer is given insight into Gus' past that has never been revealed thus far, ties it into his characterisation and links it to his need for vengeance against Hector. It's a very well written monologue magnificently performed by Giancarlo.
After Breaking Bad, not only his true colours were revealed.
It's a theme in other TV shows and movies. The crime syndicate boss is inherently a psychopath.
@@GoldenSquadFeedings Same with Presidents and politicians in general.
Even though the story began innocently enough, you kind of knew it would get dark.
xyhmo "Gus's Sinister Story" but yeah, even if you see this on the show itself, obviously it feels like it's gonna be.... _E V I L_
It actually kind of starts off like Gus is saying he cares about Hector - Hector is the tree, broken and weak, but Gus helps it back to health. Then Gus reveals Hector isn't the tree, he's the Coati, and Gus isn't going to let him die without torturing him first.
@@shuttlecrossing1433 Gus is sick. He acts so nice and polite, but even as a child, even before his trauma from the c a r t e l, he was t o r t u r i n g helpless animals, like Jeffrey Dahmer
@@shuttlecrossing1433 A tree doesn't kill people
@@shuttlecrossing1433 Yup, the tree represents Max and his business before. Hector is the wounded coati that ruined everything.
It's haunting how all of hector's family talking to him doesn't produce any results but gus' voice helps wake him up becaue hector hates him so much
Walt: “I’m offering you an opportunity for revenge.”
Nothing is more motivating than pure spite.
Can Hector hear what Gus is telling him?
@@AmirKhan-yv8jm I mean the human body can hear it. The vibrations pass through to the ear canal. I don’t know whether hector is indeed processing that information at all.
@@justinisorange possibly and he possibly might have been realising what Gus was planning but couldn't do anything
I don’t know Gus, I have a feeling this approach will blow up in your face and make you half the man you used to be
xD
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Oohhh Rimshot lol
It might make you more open minded, at least.
Jamiroquai - Half the Man
Yesterday I was half the man I used to be
Maybe that's because you're the other half of me
Just so you know, there are no coatis in Chile. Its not part of the wildlife, so this scene in my opinion makes even more mysterious the origins of Gus, who he is and what he did in his past
That is interesting. However, the Chilean accent in Spanish is one of the most distinctive (to the point that even native Spanish speakers have a hard time understanding Chilean Spanish.) Both of these things could simply be oversights by the writers.
@@mortson978 you made it sound like Chilean Spanish can't even be understand, yes there are some people who speaks poorly and uses alot of unique words and expressions, but that is present in every country. I don't know if Chilean accent is that recognized in other parts. Gus is not Chilean.
@@Ariel1Dominguez you're probably right, but my point was that in the context of the show, if gus was going to lie about where he was from, he probably would have picked a less distinctive accent. That being said, it is an American show for American audiences, so the writers probably didn't care too much about that.
Or the writers didn’t know that their aren’t any coatis in Chile
@@tre-vort-ni5189 I don’t really think it was a mistake though, like really, you could say “a coati is part of the wildlife” and it would be a fact in every country in southamerica, except for Chile. And it really doesn’t make sense for me, since before in Breaking Bad they did came up with some specific things about Chile, like Paila Marina, Pinochet’s dictatorship and Chemical Engineering in USACH. And besides, this dialogue comes up like from nowhere in the show, it was made only with the intention of showing Gus personality when it comes to protect what he worked for and giving us a hint of his past.
1:36
"I watered it"
"Tended to it"
"I was born in it"
"Wounded by it"
"Nearly adopted the dark"
"I never saw the light until I was a man. But by then it was nothing to me but BŁÍNdÎÑG"
Ah, yes. I was wondering what would break first, your spirit, or your body?
"Finally, I caught it, it showed itself, it was hungry...unfortunately the coati had a hidden bomb and blew itself and half my face up, I use prostetics to this day"
Not bad
Hahahahaha 😂😂
HAAAAAAAAW
the foreshadowing in this show is incredible
“You made one mistake Gus…This, is not fruit.”
Gus wears the same dark blue suit as the scene where he got blown up
I thought so. I caught the action of buttoning it. No tie-straightening, though.
goddamn, they didn't lose the touch
*Foreshadowing*
@@sirbenjaminthebold3943 Or maybe it's his favourite suit to wear when visiting 'Ector
The benefit of being a prequel allows “Better Call Saul” to show Gus at the height of his power - as he’s slowly consolidating his empire and plotting his revenge. Since we know where his journey ends, this story can delve deeper into his psychology. They practically portray Gus as the devil himself. Even the way he’s lit and filmed in this scene. They mystify the character - and Giancarlo’s performance brings it all together.
Tbh it showed how insanely single minded Gus is about this revenge, it has become all there is to him. Literally every step he took was for revenge.
They dont really portray him as the devil as much as someone who is cut throat to exact his revenge on the cartel and hector who are actually much darker personalities...
Nadeem Younis I fail to see how Gus is any better than Hector or the Cartel
‘I will kill your infant daughter’ ring a bell?
Kara Dunlap ‘only if’ - You speak about murdering babies as if it isn’t a big deal.
@@TTUploads I interpreted it as an empty threat.
I theorize this speech is what healed Hector, you see, the doctor spoke on how stimulation of the brain specifically from loved ones, was key in healing brain damage, hate is very similar to love. Given how little love Hector had and how much hate he had, especially for Fring, I think this was what woke him up.
Hate and love are two sides of the same coin. Most people believe hate and love are antithetical to each other, but really apathy is the true antithesis to both.
*finishes his story*
"Well, anyways...."
*kisses Hector on his forehead*
"Nighty-night!"
I always imagined Gus before Max always had a violent side to him, but Max probably calmed down his impulse and violence. Taking Max away made him go ful measure
No more half measures, Waltuh.
I mean he was apparently a high ranking officer in the chilean army. You don’t get into that position without some affinity for violence
Everyone talking about Giancarlo's acting but can we take a moment to appreciate Mark's? Dude really looks like he had a stroke.
It's probably a dummy with a life-mask of Mark.
I wonder if he's home yet.
I know your being dead serious but that's just like a really funny way to put it
He dead now. RIP.
Instant classic. One of the best monologues in all BCS/BB universe, and one of the best I remember in any movie or series.
monologues
@@jan.46 True
This and mikes “no more half measures” monologue
Mono
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
One of the best scenes inn the show.
"I kept it, it lived for quite some time, i believe you will wake Hector"
Gus' method of revenge echoes Talia Al Ghul's comments to Batman; it's the slow knife that cuts the deepest. Taking out your revenge in one explosive burst, whilst tempting for the majority of people, isn't as satisfying in the long run. Gus has realised this and knows how to package it out in just the right amounts. It's tragically sinister to devote this much time to vengeance, but oh so beautifully crafted.
eiffel0108 “Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding”. *explosion*
Translation
Maybe the knife was too slow
Except the dark Knight rises is complete trash, especially compared to this
@@albertobellini98 The DK trilogy wasn't garbage though. Well, the last movie was kinda mediocre.
@@albertobellini98 I don't think Batman is trash. I think they get really creative like the Batman Who Laughs for example. How he can have your dead mother in his belt & when he releases her she gives you a hug that literally kills you.
@@albertobellini98 how was the dark knight bad?
4:54 Gus walk away in the darkness and the dead silence breaks with....
"DING...!" 🛎
The way he says "caramel" gives me chills
Gus: "C A R A M E L."
Master Thespian: "Acting!!"
I love how this scene weaves the young Gus's struggle and hardships and mettle with his depraved, violent nature.
Gus deserves his own breaking bad series
@M of course a prequel
@M the 2nd one would be good so Bryan cranson and Aaron Paul could return be so good they should have called better call saul
Saul Goodman A Breaking Bad Series and gone through characters like that
A series called “Los Pollos Hermanos”
@M the birth of the chicken brothers!
He's the only character I've been disappointed with cuz he's pretty much the same person he was in breaking bad just longer hair lol
“I thought it probably was a COATI - have you ever seen one?”
2:32
After I saw that scene in the show I walked around saying “coati coati coati coati” in my head for hours.
Also - Gus is a frigging psychopath.
A fringing psychopath.
I did the same when he said crippled little rata
Gus talking about his past life to Salamanca is probably one of the best things ever. For a villain whose past life is shrouded in mystery, I was actually interested in listening to his story.
It was like
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Lmao
I died laughing 😂
un Q U A T Í
The cool thing about this scene is it's actually a metaphor for their relationship, the tree that he nurtured is Gus' former partner that was killed and the coati is Hector
@Marcelo Zuniga hahahaha
@Marcelo Zuniga alright sure but the tree part i didnt get tbh before reading this
@@forgetful9845 me neither. Don't let these jerks ruin you learning something new
It also references Jimmy's fixations, his obsessive drive. What his drive is exactly is harder to say. I think it's to not be a scammer, at least not as bad as Slippin' Jimmy, but to channel that selling ability into something more legitimate.
@@Slechy_Lesh yeah selling cell phones to criminals while he's on parole is really legitimate
This story sounds like an allegory for what happened with Max. Max is the tree and hector is the animal.
Indeed it is. Namely in the part where he tended to the tree, and never tasted something so sweet. His first time experiencing love, and the joy of it.
😭😭I was looking for a comment that talked ab how tragic of a metaphor that is
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Perfectly said
The best revenge is knowing a person is invalid and just torture them for the rest of their life and as you do let them know that they brought this on themselves.
Exactly I really want that to do to my enemy
So boring
@@infinityplusone-1 Oh i have. To a few of them.
@@deltaboy767 bro your real name is gus
@@auugh43546 Well, it's the truth.
One reason I love Better Call Saul is because it shows Gus as more of an actual villain. For most of the time in Breaking Bad, except for a couple of individual scenes, he seems more like a businessman whose business happens to be crime. In BCS we actually get to see more of his cruel, evil and ruthless side
This is a perfect analogy for Gus and Hector's relationship: Gus has something that brings him profit and joy (the tree and Max), the coati steals it from him (killing Max), so Gus waits and waits for the chance, and takes control of it (bankrolling Hector's treatment) so he can prolong his torture and revenge (leaving Hector able to think but paralysed and unable to move).
Spot on. Other youtubers treat this as a legitimate claim to his backstory, but it's clear that Gus is spinning a metaphor. Perhaps there is truth in the details, that Gus grew up in that third world poverty, but it's obvious that Gus is explaining what's going down to Hector and by spinning metaphor, eases the risk of eavesdropping in a public place (hospital room).
Many seem to miss point for being so infatuated with the genius writing to the point of basing entire YT channels around it.
Yup. Its the perfect allegory to he and Maxs relationship, wealth, Hector, and foreshadowing what he intends to do to Hector.
@@monasteryfounder Lol, I honestly blame a lot of today's poorer writings, and overexposition for this. Also media literacy being nearly dead.
@@monasteryfounderI’m late but to add on to ur point it should be noted that coatis don’t even live in Chile, so the fact that he can be lying about this story as a way to spin it into a metaphor about Hector is more spot on, or the writers messed that detail up, or Gus was lying about even being from Chile which also doesn’t really add up, so it could be that this story is fake
Gus' revenge took years; Hector's revenge took seconds.
Both times.
Walter White:-"And i knocked them both"😂
@@AJ_CAVILcowardly
Am I crazy or does anyone else get ASMR from Gus' voice? This one and the meal speech in particular
Yes
googling what a coati looks like is so cute, it’s terrifying gus could do something so evil to something that looks so innocent
Add wetting the bed and starting fires and Gus is your typical textbook sociopath.
They’re cute critters alright. Though I understand in poor regions, people do get defensive over livestock all the more.
Yeah, people get upset that I shoot prairie dogs off my land. "But they're so cute!". Yeah, until you've spent 4 hours in the freezing mud trying to get your truck out of a hole they dug in your road. At least I make clean headshots and don't torment them. Out in the real world you gotta do what you gotta do.
You know, I'm Chilean and had to Google a Coati lol, this scene made me laugh so hard
Do you know how many chickens Gus has killed?
Not sure about you guys, but Hector's a pretty good listener
4:15 “But I was stronger.”
Gus says this as half of his face is illuminated and half of it darkened. Perhaps subtly foreshadowing his death?
It shows that Gus didn't become rotten after Max's death
He was always rotten.
To torture an animal is very rotten. Animals act on survival instinct not on evil emotion and malice.
Lmao this story? He was rotten dealing drugs
@@nothde9865 what the hell are you talking about?
@@ethanrobinson9475 What the hell are you talking about?
@@nothde9865 you make no sense?did you misplace a word or something/?
That hospital room is going to be his tomb,I remember when I first saw the death of Gus(I remembered rewinding it about 50 times,from when he got out the car,to when he entered the room). It was one of those scenes that just stood with me.
I love the way that eerily surreal music sets in as Gus says “the merciful thing would have been to kill it”
Lowkey scary how he says "I kept it, it lived for quite some time." And that's all he has to share about the coati after he caught it. No details about what torments and horros he put it through, that's all left to the audience's imagination.
He probably didn't torture it any more. Just like he doesn't physically torture Hector. He probably left it in a cage with its broken leg, fed it, kept it alive. And just took sadistic pleasure knowing it was trapped.
@Ch4rLz_tHa_PrInCe Which is why I said "probably", sport
The story at first kind of starts off like Gus is saying he cares about Hector - Hector is the tree, broken and weak, but Gus helps it back to health. It seems odd, as if he's still keeping up the persona. But then Gus reveals Hector isn't the tree, he's the Coati, and Gus isn't going to let him die without torturing him first. This is the first time Gus ever admits the truth to Hector's face.
It was implied that Gus was involved with the Pinochet government. High enough to scare a cartel boss in his own turf. I think he was some kind of black ops director. And I think he was intimately involved with the interrogations.....
Nikos Greek if that’s the case then Gus had his moral event horizon long before max died
@@georgekostaras Yes it would require a special sort of man for that kind of work. But there were early signs. How many kids systematically stalk capture and torture an animal to death for revenge.
Not to mention the way he killed Victor
I think he used that method before
Reading about all the incredibly sadistic sexual assault that was institutionalized by the Pinochet regime for use against political prisoners just adds a whole other dimension of disturbing to what might've gone on in his past . . .
@@nikosgreek352 The Coati story was clearly poetic metaphor describing the past and future between Hector and Gus. We can't concretely say that any of it is factually based on his own life.
How do so many people keep missing the obvious, in the face of unironic, "Bravo, Vince."
I feel still like Gus won in the long run. Even though he eventually killed him but Hector still had to spend the last years of his life as a vegetable to only see his family and everybody cared about killed.
I agree. Hector lost everything while he was forced to watch it happen.
Hector had the last laugh. He died on his own terms, smiling at Gus, while Gus had a moment of sudden fear/terror.
Of course he didn't win, as he died just as he was about to complete his revenge and be able to enjoy his life of great power.
None of them won. Nobody ever did. Every single character in this show ends up losing in the end.
@@jafetlamadrid2759 Death does not mean a loss, just look at Walt. He defeated all of his enemies that dared to cross him, even though it resulted in his death, he still won.
Though this is just a story, and we don't actually get to see what Gus describes, his story is potentially chronologically the FIRST EVER thing to happen in the ENTIRE Breaking Bad universe - tied with the flashback scene of Chuck reading Jimmy the book in the tent. Both take place in the 1960's - although the exact year(s) are never specified
I don’t know if this counts, but Chucks post-death letter does mention watching Jimmy (as a newborn) come home from the hospital. This would have happened before both the reading scene and this story, late 50s/early 60s!
lol no way I'm in your joyryde server. You have both the best taste in music and entertainment.
In BrBa I actually saw Gus as a brutal yet honorable man however this story and the way he treated Nacho for simply trying to protect his father, show me that Gus is almost just as monsterous as Hector. Even serial killers sometimes have compassion for animals.
cant imagine applauding serial killers because "look they love le cute animals!". the fact that you would even consider this to be a redeeming quality despite the fact that they are serial killers who take human lives show that you value the lives of animals above the lives of humans. this is literally nothing, its the life of an animal who doesnt know its place. youre disgusting and dont deserve the benefits which come with being human.
Gus wasn't a serial killer
@@giangonzalez6385 a serial killer is a murderer who has killed three or more persons, Gus killed victor, lalo, that dude that he suffocated, and don eladio, Gus fring is definitely a serial killer.
@@bretnomcdonald32 Gus Is far worse than a serial killer; he's a capitalist who did what was the best for his bussness in a environment without regulations.
@@bretnomcdonald32the guy who suffocated is Arturo
Sorry guys I did not have time to watch the full clip, but I watched the last 20 seconds. What a caring man, putting their feud behind him and wishing him to recover and wake up.
This show is under appreciated.
This gives me chills. Shows you how cool but yet evil Gus is. He played this roll so well...
Gus isn't evil. Like Jesus have you heard of Hector?
@braedencooper5167 Nah he isnt. Hector would kill innocents. Gus won't.
@@RedNinja0070 He just admitted to torturing an animal
If this story is in fact true, than Gus was very evil even BEFORE Max's death.
and he did this when he was just a kid. bro was evil straight out the womb lol
He was likely a Military General, he was always violent
He was struggling to get something to eat, it's logical he gets mad at that animal stealing his food. Also hunger drives you more aggressive
@staymad3020That doesn’t necessarily mean he was evil. Jesse did the same thing, but he was a good person.
there's nothing evil about this. coati got what it deserved.
Coati and Lucuma trees can both be found in Peru.
It would still be some distance to go to Chile, even if it's a neighboring country.
I think it's quite likely Gus fring is from Peru and he just lied about being Chilean.
They actually put Mark Margolis into a coma for this scene for maximum realism
@Andre Nguyen Yes ofc, what did you think?
I personally believe they should have held off on Hector's stroke for a few more seasons at least. Assuming of course that BCS is going to be around for a while. I like to idea of having a fully healthy Hector as an antagonist throughout the series because it gives us some more insight into Hector's character. In Breaking Bad we mostly got to see him as an old man in a wheelchair with a bell, and only healthy in flashbacks, but Better Call Saul takes place 5 years before Breaking Bad I think so they could have built an interesting story arc for Hector too. I think getting to see a healthy Hector running things and how he builds his feud with Gus would have been great to see. It also would have allowed us to chance to see more of Mark Margolis in a more productive role.
I don’t think it is going to be around for a while. I *think* they’ve said they only want to do 5 or 6 seasons?
I understand where you're coming from, but I think having Lalo as the big bad is gonna be very exciting. He's not like any threat Mike and Gus have faced thus far.
They kept Hector normal long enough to establish a deeper definition of his villainy and blossom the rivalry between he and Gustavo. However, in order for us to understand Gustavo for what he is, Hector needed to be the “crippled little rata” long enough to see the depth within Gustavo’s heart...
I just want to know who he was in Chile, the whole reason he wasn’t shot in BB flashback was “I know who you are but this isn’t Chile” give us the full backstory
I think he was a general under Pinochet's Regime in Chile. However, Peter Schuler might've helped him escape and Gus went to North America and got rid of all connections to his past. That's why Hank and the DEA weren't able to find anything about him in Breaking Bad
@@WhyTho525 I've heard the theory that Gus was initially under the protection of the British armed forces. Pinochet provided support for the British counter invasion of the Falkland islands. Gus was one of the generals who formed connections within the British military or did something for them they felt they owed him a favour. Gus and his boyfriend were offered a new life in a less homophobic part of the world.
This also explains why ABP homicide and the DEA cannot find any record of Gus before his time in America. It was an off the books deal made between the UK and US armed forces.
@@walsh9080
That could make sense too
@@WhyTho525 Honestly when I first read it, I was a bit like "it does make sense, the timeline actually adds up but it seems a little bit implausible" but when you really think about it. The Cartel might've known that Gus was considered important to the British or American governments or at least untouchable. That if they killed Gus, the UK or US might just feel compelled to do something about the Cartel. But his boyfriend, was just a chemist and of no importance to state. We know the Cartel knew he was a general for Pinochet because Hector calls him Generalissimo.
It actually does explain quite a lot.
@@walsh9080
Oh yeah. But then how did he come in contact with Peter Schuller? Isn't he a german ?
The vicious, terrifying ambiguity in "It lived for quite some time."
incredible acting and incredible scene
This is one of the few scenes where Gus is really himself showing us who he really is
Mamba Mentality. Gus was a psycho in the sense that he could not process failure by any means.
I love the thought of a 7-8 year old Gus waiting for hours perfectly still to seek revenge on a stray animal.
I know Gus is a complete sociopath but the most qualities I admire of him is how patient and tactical he is when it comes to achieving his goals.
Gus forgave the animal so much that he even kept it as a pet. It lived a long and prosperous life.
If I’m not mistaken, I think the next time we see Hector from here, he is recovered, I think it’s after the time skip in episode 7. I always imagine that it was this dialogue from Gus that brought woke him up, gave him just the right spur of hate
The fact that he is so patient actually makes him more dangerous.
the first 30 seconds you would think they are friends because of how sad Gus looks. But after Gus says "and yet..I Wait" it completely changes.
4:45 "I believe you will wake, hawk tuah" incredible scene bravo vince
“A crippled little coati. What a legacy to leave behind”
Gus is truly a sick and terrifying individual. The Coati seemingly did nothing to him. Found a tree with fruit on it to eat and gets tortured for who knows how long because of it. There is something frightening about a man who can seem so... Fragile, easy going, softly spoken, calm and accommodating, only to turn into the most hideous of monsters... It's like he needs to inflict physical, mental and emotional pain but doesn't seem to gain anything from it. Really hard to describe it. More than a couple of screws loose, that's for sure
I disagree with this, didn't you hear that Gus said. His family grew up in poverty, he was starving and he wanted to support his family. The lucuma tree was his hardwork, pride and achivement. He was able to sell the lucuma tree which helped to feed his starving family, buy new clothes and get in more income. But now this coati comes in and destroy his hardwork, kills his income source and brought days of starving to his family. I don't find Gus evil at all for torturing the coati for bringing Gus life back to desperation and days of starving. If you grew up in poverty and had to go on days in a shavk with not even s decent meal then you would obviously do the same to that coati who destroyed ur achivement, hardwork and harms your family just like Gus did.
Gus says ''im a psychopath'' for 5 minutes and 7 seconds.
The funny thing Gus took care of Hector more than his family. He saved his life, inspects his recovery and tell him bed time stories and that made Hector decide to die along side with Gus😂
What i think is mezmerising about gus is that underneath the bland cheerful robotic demanour is someone totally out of controt of their emotions but somehow has the will to hide it from everyone. I hope one day Vince releases his real childhood backstory & along with that recipe!
can we appreciate how kind Gustavo is, entertaining this paralyzed elderly gentleman as he recovers in the hospital.
What a great backstory, it just goes to show that even at such a young age, Gus always has this darkness in him, letting the Coati starved and suffer is really brutal.
"I watered it, tended to it. It took a long time, but the buds grew into crispy, but not dried out fried chicken."
I love how him having his own tree and keeping its fruits is analogous to his secret meth project. And while it's obvious the coati is implied to be a surrogate for Hector, it somehow makes me think of Walt: "it knew I was there, but it was hungry..." Little did Gus know what a mistake it was to keep THAT coati alive.
imagine this; you were a starving poor seven year old and took so much time and energy to watering and caring for a Leukemia tree. Providing for yourself food, as well as a source of income. That tree is not just that to you, it is something you spent so much time on, it is your pride and joy. You come back to find some coati undid all that work in the span of seconds. You would make it feel pain for as long as possible for taking from your most prized possession. On some level, I understand how Gus feels. Max was someone Gus put through school and helped him achieve his potential. This pride became love and Gus’ real chance at happiness in his grueling life. In the blink of an eye it’s all taken from him. The Cartel adds insult to injury and forces him to look at the corpse of the love of his life. All their plans for the future taken from him. All his potential, squandered because of a slight offense to Eladio. Hector is the one who did the deed so he is the ‘Coati’ he destroyed his ‘Leukemia tree’ and now he will keep him trapped and helpless for as long as possible because a quick death would not be punishment enough for taking his pride and joy.
You knew this coati beef was gonna be personal the way he said “opportunists.”
I like how at first you think he's going to be like "that little plant pulled through and so will you" before it turns to "you killed that fruit and I'm going to keep you alive just for you to suffer."
This scene was intense!
*Hector leans over and turns off his own life support*
Gus is almost always humble, mature, levelheaded, respectful, accommodating, considerate and reasonable.
Keyword: “ALMOST”
Gus: “The merciful thing would’ve been to kill it. I kept it. It lived for quite some time.”
Also Gus: “HAWWWWWWWWWWWW”
His biggest vulnerability was the blinding hatred of his nemesis..
Just thinking about it shows how amazing the mind that is Vince Gilligan
If this was the MCU, Hector would fart after Gus' story 😂😂
"I have been told about a certain type of sea snake, that has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie on the ocean bed as if wounded, and it will allow its enemies to come and take little bites of it, and yet, it will lie quite still."
No one is talking about the rest of Gus' family living in that tiny shack listening to him torture the coati for months. "Come on, Gus, we're trying to sleep over here."
What a caring man, he wants nothing else but for his friend to get better. Truly a beautiful relationship
Giancarlo has a beautiful voice.
I have expected Gus to self-identify with a broken, starving animal, and nurse it back to health, and now it catches rats for him. He shepherded a dying tree, why not husband a dying animal?
The tree didn't wrong him. The animal did. That was to show just how vengeful Gus has been, even as a kid.
In any case, it's a wild animal that has found an excellent source of food. It wouldn't stop raiding the tree, killing it quickly is the reasonable solution. You can't make a pet out of a wild animal.
@@philistine3260 Why'd he keep it
@@J10005 to make it suffer. He said it himself. It's also a metaphor to Hector's situation, that death would be better for him but he will only live for Gus to exact revenge on him.
Did Gus starve that thing to death for eating his tree or keep it alive barely in horrid conditions like Hector is now until it died of old age?
Probably the latter. Gus seems like the type that would prolong their suffering for as long as possible.
This is the moment Hector became Heisenberg.
Hahahaha good one
Giancarlo Esposito better goddamn get that Emmy tonight
Whenever Gus is with Hector, he shows his honest-to-god true self, and it’s terrifying.
Even with his closest and most trusted man Mike, he wouldn’t do this. He still controls his verbal and physical outputs. But with Hector he is unfiltered (or at least verbally) not because of trust, but because Hector can’t do a damn thing about it
Also, I found it weirdly wholesome that he genuinely smiled and had a really fond memory of the tree baring fruit
This scene proves Gus was always cruel and insane and not just because of Hector.
Hes perfectly sane. Just morally flexible.
He’s sane, but he is cruel.
Being insane and being evil are different things
@@joseluis5055 well, obviously
The scene shows the difference between Salamancas and Gus. They are rash and sudden. Gus is calm, quiet and waiting
2:21
notice how he says _my_ tree, not his family's. Giving that fruit to his relatives for free, probably made him seethe inside
OK so in case anyone needs an explanation as to what this monologue is thematically meaning:
Gus is equating the Salamanca family as the Coati, the Locoma tree as his drug empire, and his ensnaring and slow torture of the Coati is Gus' plan to destroy the Salamancas and the Cartel at large.
Rewatch this with that in mind, and then you'll see why he'd even bother telling a guy in a coma his backstory.