[Casper, one of Werner's former workers, spots Lalo approaching his home while chopping wood]
LaloGuten tag!
CCasper
Guten tag. [in German] This is private property. Who are you looking for? Are you lost?
Lalo
[in English] Yeah, sorry. I don't speak any German!
CCasper
[in English] Are you lost?
Lalo
It's a beautiful place you have here. The air, it's just so... fresh!
CCasper
...Do I know you?
Lalo
Well, I don't think we've officially met-
[Casper grabs his axe and runs inside a nearby wooden shed while Lalo draws his gun. Lalo searches when he's suddenly dropped by a blow from Casper.]
CCasper
Who are you?! Who are you?!
Lalo
[strained] Ed–Eduardo... Salamanca! I'm not here for you... This is about Fring. Guh– I want to know... I want to know what he's building.
CCasper
How did you find me?
Lalo
Ma–Marga... Margarethe Ziegler.
CCasper
What have you done to her?!
Lalo
Nothing, nothing. You sent her a gi–a gift. [pulls out a business card and shows it to Casper]
[Lalo's hidden a razor blade behind the card. He springs up and cuts Casper's face, then grabs his axe and cuts his foot off.]
Lalo
[cheerfully] Carajo! I think you broke one of my ribs! [tosses Casper his belt] Here. Tie that off... before you bleed to death. You and I are gonna have a talk.
[Lalo ties Jimmy to a chair while interrogating him about the assassination attempt at his hacienda]
Lalo
You know, after I saw you last, I went home. My home. Mi cielito lindo... And you know what happened? Men came. Armed men, in the middle of the night. To my home. Trying to get to me. And you know what they did? They killed people I care about. They killed my cook. My gardener. A seventeen-year-old kid I knew since he was knee-high, never hurt a fly. Butchered my housekeeper, Yolanda. Una viejita, cabrón. They shot her in the back.
Lalo
Now, how did these men... get into my home? Do you know?
I... I have–I have no idea.
Lalo
Ignacio Varga. He let them in. And who did Ignacio introduce me to? [taps Jimmy's head] You.
Ignacio... Nacho? [brief pause] Whoa, whoa, whoa! I–I barely know Ignacio! Whatever he did, he did alone! Not with me! Listen, you gotta believe me! Hand to God, I had no part in this—it wasn't me! It was Igna—
[Lalo sneaks up from behind and gags Jimmy with a rolled-up shirt]
[through the gag] Ignacio! It's not me! Listen, listen! I–I don't know about...
Lalo
Save it. [looks Jimmy in the eyes] I'm gonna come back. And then you... are gonna tell me the whole story.
[Lalo presses play on the movie Jimmy and Kim were watching earlier and turns up the volume. He picks up Jimmy's car keys by the front door.]
Lalo
Ford Taurus... taupe? [rolls eyes and shakes his head before leaving the apartment]
[Lalo records another video message for Don Eladio while holding Gus at gunpoint at the laundromat. The dialogue is in Spanish.]
Lalo
Don Eladio, look who we have here. The one and only Gustavo Fring. [chuckles] And wearing body armor! Too bad they don't make armor for your head, eh? Now we're gonna take a little walk and show you around. Vamanos. [clicks tongue] Don, I would've liked it if we didn't have to rush this so much. We could sit by your pool... strip this snake's skin off, inch by inch. Take our time, have some fun. But he shows up now... who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth?
[Gus stops in front of a large washing machine.]
Lalo
A big machine hides a big secret. We have about... thirteen minutes until his bald gringo gets here with the cavalry, so Gustavo is going to have to give us the nickel tour. [beat; shoots Gus in the chest] Like I was saying, Gustavo is going to show us around.
[Gus walks around and pushes a button, which opens the secret passage to the underground meth lab]
Lalo
Ha! Magnificent! I had a bathtub that did this, but... credit where credit is due, this is better. [laughs] Hijo de puta.
[Gus leads Lalo down a ladder and turns on the lights]
Lalo
[chuckles; in English] Okay. Drumroll, please. D-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r... Ta-da! [laughs] Cadenza de wow, no? [in Spanish] Don Eladio, I've heard some stories about this place. It took a bunch of German engineers ten months to build all of this. They used two hundred pounds of high explosive. Dug out 120,000 cubic meters of dirt and rock. And all... without disturbing the laundry up there. In the middle of a city with a million people! That's pretty badass, right?
[Gus trips and falls to the ground when Lalo pushes the pistol against his back]
Lalo
One moment, Don. [puts the camcorder between his teeth as he switches the magazines of his pistol] Think of the laboratory you could put here, Don Eladio. Eh? How much meth you could make... that was his plan. Cut you out to become boss. And now here we are, in this big hole! [cackles] Gustavo thought he was building an empire, but all he built himself was a tomb.
Lalo
Why not?
I haven't told that fat pig Eladio what I think of him yet.
Lalo
Hoo-hoo! Perfect! You've got one minute.
Eladio... you greasy, bloated pimp. You talk of honor. But you have none. A pack of stray dogs fighting for scraps has more honor. Jackals. That's all you are! No vision. No patience. No thought. Stupid and impulsive! That is how I did all this. You couldn't see it, couldn't even conceive of it. And you Salamancas... you're the worst vermin of all. You say you believe in "blood for blood" but you only understand blood for money! You're whores! [in English] I understand blood for blood. Hector? Yeah, I kept him alive. Kept him broken. I will save him to the last. Before he dies, he will know... I buried every one of you.
Lalo
[sniggers] Big talk. You done?
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