Laura Fraser, Actress: A Knight's Tale. When the DEA connects Mike to Gus, Walt tries to get Mike to provide the names of the individuals he is paying, but Mike refuses. [22] As a result, Gus developed a lifelong loathing of Hector. The character Maximino Arciniega shares his name with the real-life actor who plays Krazy-8 in Season 1. Lapkus is known for portraying Susan Fischer in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013-2014, 2019) and Jess in the HBO comedy-drama series Crashing (2017-2019). AMC officials, who were initially reluctant with the casting choice, having known Cranston only as the over-the-top character Hal on the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, approached actors John Cusack and Matthew Broderick about the role. Betsy Kettleman (played by Julie Ann Emery) and her husband Craig Kettleman (played by Jeremy Shamos) initially appear as clients of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), and later Jimmy McGill. Walt and Jesse later employ Badger to sell their product, but he is quickly arrested. Jimmy is upset by the reminder of his past and toys with Howard while claiming to consider his offer. Jane appears in a flashback in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, reminding Jesse that sometimes the universe takes people towards bad places, and despite her freespirited nature she considers it better to make life's important decisions by yourself. AMC broadcast the first part of the fifth season on Sundays at 10:00 pm ET in the United States, and the second part on Sundays at 9:00 pm. He lies to Rebecca about his symptoms and becomes overwhelmed when Rebecca takes a phone call. When a GPS tracking device is discovered on the barrel of methylamine that Lydia planned to give Jesse, Mike suspects Lydia is working with the DEA. Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. ("JMM"). He is a named partner at one of Albuquerque's most prestigious law firms, Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), which he co-founded with Howard Hamlin's father. Jake Pinkman (played by Ben Petry) is Jesse's younger, over-achieving brother. She secretly supplied methylamine to Gustavo Fring prior to the collapse of Gus' Drug Empire, and later aligned herself with Walt's Drug Empire and eventually with Jack Welker's Gang. [44] On Ximenez's next trip to Mexico, Mike uses a homemade spike strip to flatten the truck's tires, then ties up and blindfolds Ximenez. As Walter is identified as Heisenberg and becomes the target of a manhunt, both Walt and Saul seek Ed's criminal services. ("Blood Money"), In their final conversation before they went both separately went to into hiding after their criminal activities were exposed, Saul reveals to Walt that, despite all of Mike's efforts, all the money he intended to be passed on to Kaylee ended up in "uncle Sam's pocket", ultimately rendering her grandfather's whole motivation for entering the drug trade pointless. Lalo disrupt Gus' activities and places trust in Nacho, unaware Nacho is Gus' mole. To silence Leonel while he is in the hospital following his leg amputation, Gus distracts the police assigned to the security detail by bringing them food from Los Pollos Hermanos, giving Mike the opportunity to sneak into Leonel's room and administer a lethal injection. Kim and Jimmy scheme to ruin Howard Hamlin's reputation as part of their plan to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case so Jimmy can obtain his share of the multimillion dollar judgment or settlement sooner. He is the right-hand man to Tuco Salamanca, heir to Hector Salamanca's organization. Walt shoots Mike, then realizes he could have asked Lydia for the names. [35] In the third season, following the shooting death of their cousin Tuco, the cartel sends the Cousins to New Mexico to find Tuco's killer. Hector refuses to cooperate and defecates in his pants, much to the disgust of everyone in the interrogation room. Hugo Archilleya (played by Pierre Barrera) is a former custodian at JP Wynne High School. Don Eladio Vuente (played by Steven Bauer) is the head of a drug cartel in Ciudad Jurez which includes Juan Bolsa, Hector Salamanca, and Salamanca's nephews. Maximino Arciniega (played by James Martinez) is Gus Fring's business associate and implied romantic partner. In 2010 and 2012, Breaking Bad won the TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama, as well as the TCA Award for Program of the Year in 2013. As children, the Cousins were raised by their uncle Hector Salamanca along with their cousin Tuco. [107] The murder of Sharp is mentioned in the tape Hank and Gomez make of Jesse confessing to his and Walter's criminal history. Pete stays with the El Camino and waits for police to respond to its Lojack so he can claim he obtained it by trading his Thunderbird to Jesse. Hector Salamanca sends Leonel and Marco Salamanca to threaten Kaylee while Mike is supervising her. When Kim becomes sympathetic to Acker's refusal to leave, she persuades Jimmy (as Saul Goodman) to represent him. Jesse secures an R.V. Mike delivers the empty capsules to Nacho, who explains his plan to switch Hector's nitroglycerin for a placebo. Recognizing her loyalty to him, Jesse tries to convince her to help him kill two drug dealers who convinced an 11-year-old boy to murder Combo on Gus's orders. When she was eight, her family moved to Pleasanton, California, where she grew up and attended high school. [112] When Gus hires Werner to supervise construction of a meth lab under Gus's industrial laundry, Werner employs Casper and several other laborers. Kenny later reappears in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie harassing the imprisoned Jesse alongside Neil Kandy. A wounded Jack offers to trade the money he took from Walt for his life, but Walter coldly shoots him in mid-sentence, in the same manner that Jack shot Hank. Breaking Bad is a neo-Western crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan, primarily based on the television series Breaking Bad (200813), its prequel / sequel series, Better Call Saul (201522), and its sequel film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). Both are consummate business people, who dress perfectly and try to approach their operations with a degree of professionalism unusual for the meth trade. Along with the other Aunts, she is a teacher of the Rachel and Leah Center. However, after hearing the evidence pointing to Lalo's death in the failed attempt on his life, Don Eladio dismisses Hector's accusations and sends a furious Hector to bed. The third season of the American television drama series Better Call Saul was announced in March 2016. In El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Jesse prepares to leave for a new life in Alaska and gives Ed a letter for Brock, who is the only person to whom he wants to say goodbye. Lydia vient analyser la production de Todd et son oncle dans le hangar de fabrication. The fifth-season premiere had more than double the viewership compared to the fourth season premiere, attributed to the Netflix availability. He has completed the superlab and plans for Gale to be his cook, but when he discovers the superior quality of Walter's blue meth, he hires Walter and reluctantly allows Jesse to serve as Walter's assistant. This leads Stacey to ask Mike to keep his distance. They have one child. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe. Gus, however, triggers a power outage and kills Lalo with a gun he had hidden in the site earlier. She discovers that Jesse also has a past interest in drawing, and they become intrigued by each other. When Kim Wexler quits HHM, Mesa Verde Bank agrees to hire her as outside counsel, but Chuck and Howard succeed at bringing Mesa Verde back to HHM. After successfully making the keys, Huell questions why Jimmy and Kim are bothering with such illegal activity when they have legitimate jobs as great lawyers. Microsoft is quietly building a mobile Xbox store that will rely on Activision and King games. During the ensuing scuffle, Jesse shoots Tuco in the abdomen. According to Dave Trumbore, co-author of "The Science of Breaking Bad": since Walt told her the exact manner of her poisoning and she had been exposed to the ricin about 12 hours earlier, giving her plenty of time to seek medical attention, she could have survived anywhere from 36 to 72 hours without treatment. Hank returns fire with a Glock pistol and kills Tuco. In Better Call Saul, in the flashforward at the beginning of season 5's "Magic Man", (set after the events of El Camino) Saul (in his new identity as Gene Takavic) calls Ed for a second extraction after a cab driver named Jeff recognizes him. Lydia inside Declan's meth lab. Fate She initially does not know that Hank is dead and reconciles with Skyler on the condition that the latter tells Walt Jr. everything. The following morning, Pete devises a plan to help Jesse evade police. Despite his flamboyant appearance and mannerismspunctuated by his outrageous low-budget TV commercialsSaul is a highly competent lawyer who is able to solve problems and find loopholes in order to protect his clients. He is loyal to Gus and takes great pride in his work, but is oblivious to Gus's role in the illegal drug trade. Following the heist of Declan's equipment and methylamine, she is present for Todd's first solo cook. To that end, Jimmy cons the Kettlemans into believing they have grounds for a lawsuit against Howard. While attempting to drill into the machine from the bottom, he begins verbally abusing his girlfriend (played by Dale Dickey), who tips the ATM, crushing Spooge's head and killing him instantly. Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Erin Brill (portrayed by Jessie Ennis) is a first-year associate at Davis & Main. After the meeting, Eladio had Hector execute Max as retaliation for manipulating him into a meeting, but spared Gus's life due to an unrevealed but powerful connection to Chile. Walt then pays Jack to eliminate the individuals Mike was paying. Tuco and Nacho take Jimmy and the skateboarders out to the desert to kill them but Jimmy pleads for their release. As part of Pete's plan to aid Jesse, Pete stays at home and waits for police to respond to the El Camino's LoJack so he can tell them he traded his Thunderbird to Jesse for the El Camino. Mike dies, and Lydia later provides the names to Walt. The two share a farewell glance, after which Jesse escapes. Mike and Jesse then decide to sell their portion of the methylamine to Walt and leave the business, with Mike using a portion of his profits to continue paying the members of Gus's organization for their silence. Gomez and his agents discover Dan making his routine drops in these boxes, arrest him, and successfully induce Dan to inform on Mike. Lydia is a feminine first name.It derives from the Greek , Luda, from (luda; "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia"), a feminine form of the ancient given name ().The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king named ; the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia. Stacey was married to Matt for an unknown period of time, and also had a good relationship with Matt's father, Mike Ehrmantraut. Betsy threatens to have Jimmy arrested by reporting the bribe he took but he responds that if he is guilty of taking a bribe, she is guilty of offering one. Last Tyrus spots Hector leaving the DEA office and alerts Gus. Gus learns what Nacho did with the pills and forces him to become his mole by murdering Arturo in front of him. This piques Hank's interest in the case, and he embarks on his own investigation of Gale and his ties to Fring. Eventually, Hank and Gomez discover Mike and Dan's transactions and their safety deposit boxes at Cradock Marine Bank, and Gomez is sent to investigate. Nacho and Lalo are mentioned in the Breaking Bad episode "Better Call Saul". Jesse creates a batch with a level of purity comparable to Walt's. Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Nominations were announced on March 4, 2021. Six years after Huell's final appearance on Breaking Bad, and three days before the release of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a countdown was shared on Breaking Bad's social media channels. Don Eladio, unimpressed by these upstarts and nominally dismissive of selling methamphetamine in lieu of cocaine, had Hector kill Max on the patio of his mansion. Spooge (played by David Ury) is a drug addict who steals meth from Skinny Pete at knifepoint. The fifth and final season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on July 15, 2012, and concluded on September 29, 2013 on AMC in the United States and Canada. While Hector and the Cousins are preparing to kill Ximenez, Mike attempts to shoot Hector with a sniper rifle, but is stopped by someone unseen, who sets off his car horn and leaves a note warning him not to do it. He goes on to say that he cannot guarantee the Cousins will listen to reason and leave Walter alive until his business with Gus is done. Henry R. Schrader (played by Dean Norris) is Walt and Skyler's brother-in-law and Marie's husband, who works as a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. To Chuck's surprise, Jimmy was inspired to pursue his own law degree, hoping to also become an attorney at HHM. He is the uncle of twins Leonel and Marco Salamanca (the Cousins), Tuco Salamanca, and Lalo Salamanca, and raised Tuco as a son. She zeroes in on a three-mile stretch of "dark territory" - a dead zone for all lines of communication - and suggests they rob the train there. When the day of the robbery arrives, Jimmy distracts the security guard while Jeff robs the store.