This is very relatable. When I got fired from kfc I also got kidnapped and sent out to the desert, thank you breaking bad for normalizing this!

0:55 This is the moment Walt turned into Mike for 3 seconds.

Season 2 Gus : "You can never trust a drug addict." Season 4 Gus : "StAy AwAY fROM pINkmaN"

0:38 That reaction from Gus is so unusual for him, especially after Better Call Saul. You can clearly see that Walt is the first big foil for Gus in a LONG time. Someone who doesn't give in out of fear like Nacho did (because of his life and his father). Someone who is not as level-headed as Mike is. Someone who pushes back. Someone who is dangerous.

Imagine if this was how every boss fired their employees

When he says "If you could kill me" he sounds like Mike. 0:55

What if this is how Gus fires his Pollos Hermanos employees.

“I do not believe fear to be an effective motivator” - Gus Fring

The cloud was the real MVP of this scene

Gus underestimated a nerd with nothing to lose

Gus in BCS: Yeah of course I’m different from those cartel douches Gus in BB: Killing infants 😍

The entire scene from 0:50 to 1:45 The scene starts with the characters in the sun, but they quickly get covered in darkness as Walt explains how he's in control of the situation. During the entire time Walt is explaining how they can't kill him, they are all in shadow. But as soon as Gus starts explaining how he can kill Walt's entire family, the cloud above moves out of the way and the characters are in the sun again. Whenever Gus is in control in this scene, the characters are in the light and when Walt is in control, the characters are in the dark. Beautiful cinematography.

Gus' facial expression combined with his delivery of the line "What do you say?" might be the only time we witness the character being visibly baffled in the entire series! Giancarlo has really done an outstanding job on his performance as a whole!

Gus became too confident in his power and skills that he underestimated Walter. That lead to his downfall.

I love how he lowers his voice when he threatens his infant daughter, as he realises he is going a bit too far with what he is saying, but says it nonetheless. That's the human behind the monster

I really love how Gus seems genuinely taken aback on the line, "What did you say?" We've definitely seen real emotion from him in various scenes, but this is like the first time he seems to be trying to intimidate someone and it doesn't work, so he's kind of baffled.

So Jesse wouldn't work for Gus if he killed Walt but wouldn't mind working for Gus if he killed Walt's whole family?

this is Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposit's (Gus) favorite scene. He loved how the cloud moved in and blocked the sun dimming the area, then moved out of the way. it was very natural.

Gus should've at least offered a Los Pollos Hermanos discount voucher.

I like how the shadow from the cloud moves in perfect timing and accentuqtes the dialogue between Gus and Walt.

"You are done" "Don't I get a written warning first? Isn't that how it works?"

"I will kill your infant daughter", said Dumbledore ...calmly.

the fact that Gus expressed more anger and emotion here than he did when he so viciously killed Victor says a lot.

When he said “I will ratio your wife, I will ratio your son, I will ratio your infant daughter.” I felt that.

I love his reaction to Walt calling his bluff about staying away from Jesse. Gus was literally, genuinely amazed, as well as confused, at the audacity of what Walt had just said in such a nonchalant manner: Gus: "Stay away from Pinkman." Walt: "Or what?" Gus: "WHAT do you say?!" (Mouth Agape) Walt: "Stay away from Pinkman, or else you'll do what?" As saul would say "I admire your cohones!"

Gus: "if you try to interfere, I will kill Skyler, Flynn, and Holly..." Heisenberg: "Pfft, whatever" Gus: "and, I will tell Lois on you" Heisenberg: *PANIC!*

2:09 This is the very moment in the entire series that signed Gus's death warrant. This right here.

That part where the sun comes out when Walt says “And he still wouldn’t let you do it” is perfect cinema

2:23 this is the moment Gus decided to get blown up

I really love how the light changes naturally in this scene. It's symbolic and perfect. When it goes dark Walter is talking about death. And light again when Gus threatens him.

Gus claimed to be different than the Salamancas, but he was every bit as ruthless. He just hid it better.

“What did you say?” Wow. The facial change, subtle but visible. Gus isn’t used to people not being swayed by fear tactics. When the villain sees he doesn’t have control.

Hold up, two questions since Gus fired Walter. 1. Does that mean he is also banned from Los pollos hermano's?, because if he were, then that would suck if someone wanted to eat there and Walter was with them and could not come up with an excuse or at least order to go, so would going in there mean a death sentence or would Gus still reluctantly serve him as long as he paid and left as soon as they were done eating? 2. Does that mean Walter can file for unemployment since he was fired, or does he offer a severance package as a consultant like with Mike in BCS. Can't turn down free money you know.

0:55 Tell me that's not Mike's voice lol

Gus was upset because he found out that Walt went to a pizza place to make up with Skyler instead of getting Los Pollos Hermanos takeaway.

Imaging how annoying Walter must have been for Gus while he was dealing with the Cartel at the same time.

*YOU ARE DONE* Walt with Hank's voice: I dunno Gus(...)

I love the nature aspect in this show, the wide open skies

I loved this character. He was soooo good. I found myself becoming a fan of Gus. And then.... this scene. The reminder that he is an evil man and then I step back and question my own morals. Incredible scene. Well written and delivered.

0:33 Walt : Ok but I can still order a chicken in your restaurant , can I?

Gus hands down the best character

Gus is really wearing a full on dress shirt and tie with a coat in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Now that's a real Gus Fring move.

Gus’s reaction to Walt’s “or what?” is the funniest thing to see lol

Doctor: It's just a cold Parents: It's just a cold Friends: It's just a cold Google: 0:09

0:54 he sounds like mike

this is the moment holly became rick grimes

How hard this scene is, and how puffy, and perfect the clouds are...

0:02 When you accidentally turn light mode on

That’s the moment Gus became speechless

Some might find that there's inconsistency with how Gus behaves here compared to how he is in previous episodes, but after watching Better Call Saul, it's apparent he has his own "Heisenberg", a dark persona that runs counter to his more mentoring nature. After wiping out the cartel and accomplishing a mission he had been waiting decades for, Gus seems more emboldened and willing to let that side of him show...not that dissimilar from how Walt changes after wiping out Gus's empire.

Walt just can’t stop flexing any microscopic amount of power he has left here. He just cannot shut his mouth.

Love how gus starts threatening walt's family seconds after mike is not present

thats how Jeff Bezos would love to fire everyone who gets fired at Amazon..

I love Breaking Bad one of the most original and addictive shows I ever saw. I watch it one episode after another, it was like a drug , if you pardon the pun. And the villian Gus? He was so menacing, you never know what he was going to do next.

1:00 That sounded like Mike. 😅

When it came to displaying betrayal/loyalty in stories, breaking bad might be the undisputed greatest. Everyone is loyal to the other to some degree while also having underlying loyalty when it came to real blood family and just plain old being a real friend and also when it came down to money and death. I just love Walt's loyalty to Hank even though he and Gus have been through quite a lot up until this point of the show and Walt still won't budge, not to mention Jesse not budging for Gus either to give up Walt. Just brilliant

Giancarlo Esposito said that this was his favorite scene of breaking bad and i almost have to agree becouse the level of acting and writting and everything is just on top in this Scene.

Gus sounded almost shocked when Walt said "Or else you'll do...what?"

I like how awkward Walter was. You couldn't tell if he was scared or being a badass. Love the transition he goes from being a wimpy chemistry teacher to being a stone cold drug lord.

Been watching Better Call Saul, on the last season now, going back, man is it satisfying seeing someone actually talk back to Gus like that and the look of shock on his face that someone actually did.

0:35 The way Gus' face lost it's composure for a second shows just how shocked he was at hearing Walt be this atrocious

THIS is why Gus is the greatest villian in breaking bad, he's so calm and collected that seeing him show any emotion is downright terrifying. And it just goes to show how Walt really ruined Gus's game of chess with the cartel and he was just over Walts bullshit

that wide shot with the shade 🔥

Gus was always so calm and composed no matter what, yet Walter managed to get under his skin and really piss him off.

I love that little smirk when Gus says: "for now"

"May I still eat at Los Pollos Hermanos, please?"

0:30 Walt's "Perfect Moment," right there. For that one brief moment, Walt had absolutely zero problems. Had he simply answered "Yes," he would have walked away and lived the rest of his life an unimaginably wealthy man, with all evidence of his criminal history being erased by Fring as it would still be in Fring's best interest to do so. It was at that moment that Walt signed his own death warrant.

When he threatened to kill Holly, that’s when I started to hate Gus

People unsure if Gus ordered the killing of that one kid. 2:18 Oh ok this clears everything up.

And to think that Mike later had the audacity to throw his "You and your pride and your ego" bullshit in Walt's face when Walt killing Gus was done in self-defense.

Cloud passing over casting a shadow while Walt speaks...awesome affect!! I often wonder if this was planned symbolism with CGI or just a coincidence while filming.

I love how the cloud darkens over where they are in this scene.

Giancarlo said this was his favourite scene in the show

I love how offended Gus looked when Walt, even in the predicament he was in, still went ahead to call his bluff.

As an agent, you know how your line of work goes. It is clean, precise. In war, with masses of battalions, it is very different. Especially in an occupied area area. In both instances, crows are seen as a metaphor for Life and Death. It’s just not many people take the time to sit down and notice what’s around them

I love how the clouds just went in to hear Walt speak and then left immediately once Gus started speaking

Gus is dressed to be in a winter city in this hot desert, shows how much calm and collected he is

Gus should probably have stopped while he was ahead. He was signing his own death warrant once he got to talking about killing Walt's family.

Apparently this is the first and only take of this scene. 4 baldys in the sun won’t last long.

this situation sure was blown out of proportions.

When Gus said “what did you say?” I was afraid for my own safety.

It's funny that even the threats against Walt's family by Gus are sort of hollow. Like, if killing Walt would upset Jesse, and you kill Walt's baby... what if Walt jumps off a bridge afterwards? Jesse's going to think you killed them both. Now he _double_ hates you.

I've always found it interesting that Gus only threatens Walt's family at the very end. He begins the conversation by firing him, and asking him to stay away from Jesse. Only after Walt spits back at him, asking what he'll do- and then going on to describe why killing him would be ineffective that Gus mentions his family. It sounded like, if Walt had accepted it, the family threat may not have even come up. Which is particularly interesting to me, because whenever Walt talks to others about this scene, he brings that threat up first. As if the purpose of the conversation was for Gus to threaten his family, when in actual fact, he only mentioned it as a last resort. Otherwise, with Walt's big talk, how would he guarantee he'd stay out of the picture and not push limits. By threatening not him, but something else he couldn't bear to lose, chess style. He doesn't do anything else to hurt Walt, or rough him up for talking back (like Tuco does in BCS in that similar scene), in terms of what else we've seen the Cartel do, it's actually quite pilote. A strongly worded letter off dismissal, a show of force by taking him in the car. Threats didn't even come up until Walt started pushing it. "Or What". And Walt left inconvenienced but otherwise unscathed. The only thing hurt or otherwise damaged in this scene, was Walter's ego, and pride. The way he was taken, and Gus's threat to something he actually values that he couldn't negotiate or hassle or worm his way out of. A boundary that he couldn't cross. Don't talk to Jesse. Don't come back. Only if you break these, will you be made sorry. I think in the end, that's why he wanted to kill Gus. Not because he didn't understand that kind of negotiation. But that he couldn't handle someone else having power over him, in the same style he threatens other people.

Walt wasn’t just asking a question. He was gathering information. When he threatened to kill his family, Walt knew what had to be done. Gus sealed his own fate.

This is one of the only times Gus lost his cool, the others are when lalo tricked him, when Hank asked if Gus was his real name and when Hector started to ring the bell

It's amazing how we still don't know if Gus was just Bluffing to scare Walt or he actually would've done it.

Good shot with the clouds shading the field during Walt calling the bluff .

Walt was a real piece of work but it was always fun watching how he turned every situation to his favor.

Gus is bluffing here. He knows it. Killing the entirety of Hank's family after he accused him of being a Kingpin would be perhaps the stupidest move ever.

When Gus is sus

"What do you say?" Gus, always poised and with perfect grammar except after Walt talks back to him. I love that little slip up.

As others have mentioned, the clouds blocking the light was perfect. Obviously, it was unplanned, but the choice to interlace that moment that way was brilliant - the contrast between the tight close-ups on their faces and then showing them small and almost insignificant in the vast landscape was very effective. The cinematography in this show was so well-done. The attention to detail was impeccable, down to how the colors of Walter White's clothing changed throughout the story arc. There have been very few shows I have enjoyed as much a this (and "Better Call Saul"). I think that aside from the obvious of the writing and acting, it is these sorts of production values that work on an almost subconscious level. It was only when someone mentioned the colors of the clothing, for instance, that I became fully aware of it. Yet it probably worked on my brain in a subconscious way. Brilliant stuff from top to bottom.

This level of acting from Giancarlo.... Priceless

I love how a cloud hovers over them as they’re talking. I don’t know if it was planned or it just happened while they were doing that shot

Gus: "I do not believe fear to be an effective motivator." Also Gus: constantly uses fear as a motivator

I honestly don't find it believable that Gus would handle this situation in this way. He literally just experienced Walt running over those drug dealers, the very incident that led to their falling out resulting in this scene in the first place. There's NO way he could ever believe Walt would just sit back and accept Hank getting murdered without doing everything in his power to stop it.

"You Are Don"

The song name that you searched for is "Quarto de Hotel" Hareton Salvanini 1974

I just love how the clouds moving. :)

That wide shot @1:20 is amazing.