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The episode's title is a double entendre in that "Face Off" is a reference to Gus losing half of his face in the explosion, and also is a term to describe a battle or confrontation. [ 3 ] The songs playing throughout the episode were "Black" by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi featuring Norah Jones , "Goodbye" by Apparat , and "Freestyle" by ...
The scene with Gus and Hector ends with a shot of Hector's right hand as Gus walks out. This was intended to allude to the scene in the Breaking Bad fourth season episode "Face Off," in which Hector uses the same hand to trigger the explosion that kills both him and Gus. Two takes of this scene were shot, one with Hector's finger twitching and ...
Giancarlo Esposito portrays Gus Fring in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Gustavo Fring is named after the former German international footballer Torsten Frings. [1]When Raymond Cruz was unable to continue as Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad 's second season due to his commitment to appear in The Closer, the Breaking Bad writers wrote Tuco out of the series and created the character of ...
During a twist scene in "Box Cutter", Gus slices his loyal henchman Victor's throat with Gale's utility knife right before Walt and Jesse's eyes. Esposito said he was concerned about filming the scene "without really hurting my spirit and my soul", and he concentrated so hard that he remained silent and focused during filming, rarely speaking ...
Making their escape after killing off Don Eladio Vuente and the Cartel's leadership, [a] Jesse Pinkman drives Gus Fring, who is weakened due to taking his own poison, and Mike Ehrmantraut, who is wounded, to a makeshift emergency room that Gus earlier prepared. Gus recovers quickly, but Mike has to stay another week before he can safely travel ...
Their house is revealed to be the operations center of people who are surveilling Gus Fring's home. Gus returns to his home and uses a tunnel system to enter the Ryman home, from which he oversees a widespread search of Albuquerque for Lalo Salamanca. Mike Ehrmantraut says no leads have been found, but Gus insists that Lalo is alive.
Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club noted "this episode is all about the organization now employing Walter — its long reach and ruthless ambition" but criticized the hospital scene as "spouting cliches." [ 1 ] Seth Amitin of IGN gave the episode a 9.4/10 rating, calling it "a great episode about the emotional debris left in the wake of last week's ...
Gus Fring's firm belief that Lalo is alive causes him sleeplessness and distractions at work. Mike Ehrmantraut and Gus visit the construction site of the planned meth lab, which Gus carefully inspects before hiding a handgun in the track of an excavator. In Germany under an alias, Lalo approaches Werner Ziegler's widow Margarethe at a bar ...