Gale Boetticher Explains Heisenberg's Level Of Brilliance To Gus Fring

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[salvadormartinez]

Walter White was able to cook this in a RV! With a box of scraps!

[bern]

Gus: "Gale! 96% will do just fine. Don't let this trouble you"
Gale: "Ok."
*Gale doesn't die.*

[evanphaup]

“I’d hate to talk myself out of a job”

Nah, man, you talked yourself out of living

[zekeiwa]

Gale's 96%:
"Proud of that figure. It's a hard earned figure"
Walt's 99.1%:
"It's just basic chemistry"

[emilio_gobulls]

The fact that Pinkman, who had no background in chemistry, was able to also get a purity of 96% tells you what a great student he was and Walter a great teacher.

[marcdavies]

Gale was a true scientist, who admired the chemistry for its own sake, and he talked Gus into what would ultimately be the death of both of them.

[nowayjose]

This is a perfect example of the saying "don't let perfect be the enemy of good." Gus should have stuck with his gut bc pursuing that extra 3% ended up costing him (and Gale) everything.

[archnebula]

Honestly Gale is really such a softspoken person, he dosen't see it as a drug but a science creation of a genious and it just makes him look like a giddy child as well.

[Herucarne]

It's actually sad, that Gale is the only one who really fully understood the genius behind Walter, who struggled his whole life underappreciated. And in the end Walt is the one who got him killed.

[bobbob]

I love the little detail that, when Gus interprets Gale's nervousness as him worrying that the superiority of the outside sample threatens his position as cook, he responds as a boss firmly shutting down an insecure subordinate and refuses to talk about anything outside of Gale's "compartment". When Gus thinks it's a regular criminal power dynamic thing he uses his standard, cold, criminal managerial style.

But when he realizes that Gale's nervousness is more that of a junior craftsman trying to talk his way into an apprenticeship with a hugely talented master, he instantly warms up a little, and explains, with an honest to god smile, the reasoning behind his decision. That's the sort of respect you'd give to a peer of intelligence if not authority, not some dumb subordinate you have to babysit to prevent from fucking up. The fact that Gale felt comfortable enough to actually push his point is pretty significant too. Gus must have had a lot of patience and quiet respect for people who focused on the work.





I bet that's a big part of the reason he treated his non-criminal staff vastly better than all his other henchmen and seemed genuinely concerned over their well being. The lowly civilian burger flippers had the good sense and overall competence to do their job, properly and consistently, with minimal supervision; meanwhile, Gus constantly had his hands full meeting with delegators coming to him with problems caused by the rest of the dysfunctional maniac dipshits that worked FOR him instead of WITH him. I bet that after having to deal with Walters and Lalos and Sauls all the time, Gus came to cherish his loyal, simple, predictable little fry cooks/shift leaders/cashiers that just wanted to come in, get shit done on autopilot with minimal issues, then clock out.

[masterzombie]

And thus began the Downfall of Gus fring. They literally had the entire world in the palm of their hand, and they chose to piss off a High school Chemistry teacher.

[benmorgan]

So ironic that the man who vouched for Walter ends up dying by Walter. This show is brilliant.

[gogll]

Gus knew Gale was the smartest option, but unpurposely Gale did to Gus, what Gus did to Walt: he played to his weakness. Walt's being his ego and Gus' being perfectionism.

[TheMrRedMad]

To me, this scene shows how Jesse has grown throughout the series.
Gale says "I can guarantee 96%, I'm proud of that figure, it's a hard earned figure"
Jesse was able to do 96% of purity by the end of the show. A guy with no education, no degree in chemistry, just 2 years of internship with the best, and he was capable of producing meth just as good as a trained chemist.

[snavs]

Gale is the embodiment of what Walt always wanted: unbridled respect from his peers and a genuine notice of his genius. Gale was a guy that was not consumed with wanting constant affirmation of his genius. He was comfortable with who he was and lived within his means, something Walt was seemingly incapable of doing, and that bothered Walt more than Gale's almost equal talent as a chemist, which was also something he resented. He was devoid of self destructive ego, so much so that he insisted that Walt should be included in the fold. He fawned over Walt, and then he gets repaid with a bullet in the head. It's one of the sadder parts of Breaking Bad.

[krissifadwa]

During this point, in this season, it's where you begin to see in Gus' eyes that he realizes Walt is much more than a genius Chemist and you can see that it always bothered him. He was slightly intimidated by Walt. You can't blame him — as Walt had a numerous amount of tricks up his sleeve.

[brettbrooks]

And people say Howard and Lalo weren't in breaking bad. Their cameo in this scene is amazing

[Jasonlords]

Everyone is saying Gus should have stuck with Gale, and he'd still be alive.... But he also had a chance to survive by not taking the side of his child killing dealers. It boggles my mind how many people solely blame Walt for the downfall of their relationship when Gus, and Jesse played a much bigger role.

[spicypickle]

...and Walt achieved 99% purity while using a chemistry set in the back of an RV. Just imagine how high the purity must have been while working from the super lab.

[lisandrot]

‘If he’s not, I don’t know what that makes me’ - one of the best acted lines in the show. You can really tell how much chemistry means to Gale.