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One of the most memorable “Breaking Bad” episodes, Season 4’s “Salud” shows Gus’ decades-long revenge come to its terrifying end. When Jesse, Mike, and Gus are all invited to Don Eladio’s house, they enjoy the sunshine by the pool as Gus and Eladio apparently make peace. Offering a token of appreciation in the form of a bottle of tequila, Gus and Eladio both drink, as do many of the don’s men. However, out of sight, Gus has taken a pill to fortify himself against the inevitable effects of the poison he’s laced the tequila with.
As Eladio and his men begin dropping like flies, Gus induces vomiting and survives, though the poison still affects him. Despite the fact that he’s very nearly on death’s door himself, he screams out threats to Eladio’s remaining men, declaring their leader dead and telling them that they have no reason to fight. Even as he’s near collapsing, Gus cuts an intimidating figure, and the don’s friends and employees flee the scene, and Mike, Jesse, and Gus barely escape with their lives.
This scene is one of the masterstrokes of “Breaking Bad,” not only showing a brave and impressive side to Gus but offering some catharsis after we saw the greatest horror of his life visited upon him in the very location where he exacts his revenge. Though it’s only downhill from here, this is the moment of triumph that Gus sacrificed everything to achieve, and it is epic.
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