We had just enough time to think, “Oh, come on!” and then…the camera panned around Gus, revealing that half of his head was missing. Moments later, Gus emerged, looking no worse for the wear. The shot of Hector’s exploding bedroom was impressive, but not as impressive as what immediately followed: after the door to the bedroom exploded out into the hall, smoke billowed from the room. What Gus didn’t know, however, was that Walt had strapped that car bomb to Hector’s wheelchair: just when Gus was about to inject Hector with something very painful, Hector rang that bell one…last…time. After Gus’ henchman, Tyrus, cleared the area, Gus entered Hector’s sad little bedroom to pay him an extremely final visit. Convinced that Hector had turned informant, Gus went to Casa Tranquilo (the improbably-named old folks’ home where Hector resides…er, resid ed) to kill the old man once and for all. Walt realized that the two were enemies, and that gave him quite the idea.Īfter putting into action an intricate plan that involved getting Hector down to DEA headquarters, Walt tricked Gus into paying Hector another visit. Upon chatting with Saul (who’d been sent there by Jesse, who was in police custody while the hospital figured out whether or not Brock had, in fact, been dosed with ricin)(as it turns out, marching into an emergency room screaming about ricin will get the Feds called on you in a New York minute), Walt learned that Gus had been visiting our good friend Cap’n Wheelchair-known to most as Hector Salamanca-and that his visits mainly involved Gus talking mad shit to the wheelchair-bound Hector. After failing to kill Gus with a car bomb at the end of last week’s episode, Walt went on a mad dash around town, trying desperately to finish Gus off as quickly as possible: first, he hit the offices of “Better Call” Saul Goodman, only to discover that Saul wasn’t in (this, by the way, was one of the funnier scenes in tonight’s episode) then, he headed back home to pick up some cash, only to discover that a pair of Gus’ thugs had the house under surveillance next, he met up with Saul and learned a very valuable piece of information, one that would prove to be just the thing he needed to bring Gus’ immaculate little life to an end. Gus” debacle and the “Who Poisoned The Kid?” mystery.Īs it happens, tonight’s episode-appropriately titled “Face Off”, by the way-spent the better part of its running time wrapping up the former. All week long, debate’s raged as to who the culprit was, and so tonight’s season finale had a few major dangling threads to tie up: the “Walt VS. On the other side of the fence, you had the slightly-more-cynical Breaking Bad fans, the ones who believed that Walt poisoned the kid himself. On one side of the fence, you had fans who thought that Gus found a way to sneak the ricin out of Jesse’s pocked and into Brock’s fruit punch (or whatever the hell that kid drinks). Last week’s episode introduced a major plot point that many Breaking Bad fans spent the week arguing about: Brock, the little poisoned boy laying in a hospital bed. On that note, the wait for season five is going to be excruciating. And-as with any TV show worth watching- the better the finale, the harder that wait is gonna be. On the other hand, once the fireworks have gone off, we know it’ll be another year before we get new episodes. Any Breaking Bad finale is always a bittersweet TV-watching event, isn’t it? On the one hand, we get to see the payoff to whatever Gilligan and Co. I think I’ll buy myself a drink or six.īut enough of that! Let’s talk about tonight’s Breaking Bad, which-as you know if you’ve been keeping score at home-was the show’s fourth season finale. Besides, the rest of our season finale predictions? Pretty damn spot-on. Yeah, that “confirmed tip” we got about Walt’s glasses being bugged seems to have been complete and utter horseshit, but what’re ya gonna do? That’s “insider info” for ya. Allow me to revel in the glory of that on-the-nose prediction for another moment, and then we’ll get into tonight’s recap. Nobody likes an “I told ya so” (just ask Nikki Finke), but…man, I didn’t just “tell ya so”, I called this one all the way down to its final shot.
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