Victor replies that he couldn't because people were already there. Mike asks if Victor performed a sweep of Gale's apartment. He's not looking forward to calling the boss. To Mike it's clear he failed Gale is dead. But on seeing the state of Jesse, Walt realizes he must've triumphed so he breathes again.

Victor returns with Jesse and for a moment Walt thinks Jesse failed and it's possibly the end for them both. Victor jumps in and orders Jesse to drive at gunpoint.Īt the lab, Walt and Mike Ehrmantraut stare each other down, Walt fearing for his life. Outside, Victor spots a shell-shocked Jesse in his car. Moments later, Victor pushes his way through a small group of neighbors, including one on the phone to 911, and finds Gale dead, shot through the eye. Jesse is in a state of shock, with red flooded eyes, he can hardly flee when he does.

Gale insists on the superiority of this blue meth - he says that they 'have their work cut out for them' if that is their competition, and he knows the value Gus puts on perfection. Gus reconsiders it seems Gale has just talked Gus into hiring Walter White.īack in the present, Jesse Pinkman stands in Gale's doorway, having just shot him. Gustavo Fring visits Gale in the lab to check on his process. Gale then praises the blue meth Gus gave him to analyze - it's beyond the purity that he, or anyone else he knows of, could produce - a 96% to 99% purity difference, which doesn't seem much but is in fact quite major. Gus politely demurs, saying the chemist responsible wouldn't make a suitable partner due to other considerations. In a flashback, Gale Boetticher excitedly unpacks sterling new high-tech lab equipment, making notes in a distinctive journal labeled 'Lab Notes' - he is setting up the superlab.

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