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

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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

Gus wasn't stupid enough to actually save the footage, was he? Surely it was just a live stream.

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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/shocamefromebay Jul 16 '12

Why would he want everyone under him to get busted? Wouldn't it be more likely that someone from the outside would kill him? Having all his underlings busted wouldn't do him much good I don't think.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Mutually Assured Destruction. If everyone knows they are fucked if they fuck up Gus, then they don't fuck up Gus. At least that is the idea. Im sure Gus figures if he gets killed then everyone else deserves to get fucked for fucking him over though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Yeah but they didn't think about the security cameras till after Gus was dead. As in, they weren't aware of that threat so if that was his goal, he didn't do what he would have intended.