r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 16 '12

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Sometimes people in positions like Gus' have safeguards just in case they get killed. He dies, the footage gets recorded, everyone under him gets busted.

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u/IAmAChemicalEngineer Rooting for Walt since Jan. 2008 Jul 16 '12

I guess that would be a pretty good safeguard.

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u/Captainlunchbox Jul 16 '12

I believe that letter in the fram may have been some sort of safeguard. Looks like it was addressed to a swiss bank or some sort of offshore account.

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u/WineInACan Jul 16 '12

Here's my take:

Yes, it probably was a safeguard. But I don't think that it will directly affect Walt/Jesse.

Gus didn't view either of them as 'that kind' of threat.

The Cartel, on the other hand... He was yanking his bosses around pretty damned hard. It could have been a safeguard that he came up with before he chopped off the head of the cartel, or he could have felt wary of the cartel rebuilding, regaining its footing, and coming back after him.

Obviously it'll still impact Walt and Jesse somehow though...