Gus Fring quotes from Breaking Bad

Walter

Gus, you do this, all you'll have left is an $8 million hole in the ground. This lab, this equipment, is useless without us, without Jesse and myself. You'll have no new product, you'll have no income. Your people out there won't be paid. Your distribution chain collapses. You'll have nothing. You kill me, you have nothing. You kill Jesse, you don't have me. You won't do this. You're too smart. You can't afford to do this. Please let...let us just go back to work. We're here. Let us work. We're ready to go to work. We'll just pick up right where we left off—

Gus

...Well? Get back to work.

One of the suspected gunmen died at the scene. The second succumbed to his wounds earlier this evening at an area hospital. Agents with the DEA and FBI, in conjunction with APD Homicide are working with Mexican law enforcement in an attempt to identify the deceased suspects. Both—

Gus

I can give you the highlights. Your nephews grew impatient. They continued to press me for my permission to kill Walter White. When I wouldn't give it, they settled instead for DEA Agent Schrader. But a phone call was placed to Agent Schrader moments before the attack, thus giving him the upper hand. Marco, shot in the face and died instantly. Leonel lingered for several hours. The warning call to the DEA agent... Juan Bolsa may have some insight into who placed it. For yesterday the federales raided his hacienda, and in the confusion, Juan was shot dead. An accident, perhaps? A mistake made by his own men? But we may never know. At any rate, I thought you should hear it from me. [pats a furious Hector on the leg and stands up to leave] This is what comes of blood for blood, Hector. Sangre por sangre.

Jesse

What am I doing here?

Gus

I know you have concerns. What happened yesterday to my man at the farm, it was a terrible thing.

Jesse

Oh, the dude getting his head blown off? Yeah.

Gus

I have invited you into my home, prepared food, so we could sit and talk. Discuss what's going on in this business. Our business. Like men. And I will explain everything that's happening. I will answer your questions. But first, I need you to answer one question for me: Can you cook Walter's formula?

Jesse

What?

Gus

Walter's formula. Can you produce this product without any help alone?

Jesse

No. Why? You asking me if I can cook Mr. White's crystal without him? Me? The junkie loser you were about to waste and dump in the desert a month ago? This your plan, huh? Invite me to your house and make whatever the fuck this is? Be my buddy and make me feel important? Then get me to keep cooking for you after you kill Mr. White? You wanna talk like men? Let's talk like men: You kill Mr. White, you're gonna have to kill me, too!

Gus

That is not what I asked you. You are here because circumstances with the cartel are untenable and I need your help. I need you to help prevent an all-out war. Now, if you would answer the question. Can you cook Walter's formula?

Gus

You did well down here. And you also proved a point. I think you can run the lab by yourself now, don't you?

Jesse

Let Mr. White go. Pay him off or fire him. Don't kill him.

Gus

You know that won't work.

Jesse

Then you got a problem.

Gus

You are done. Fired. Do not show your face at the laundry again. Stay away from Pinkman. Do not go near him...ever. Are you listening to me?

Walter

Or else you'll do what?

Gus

What did you say?

Walter

Stay away from Pinkman... or else you'll do... what? Kill me? If you could kill me, I'd already be dead. But you can't. You can't kill me because Jesse wouldn't cook for you if you did. That's it, isn't it? [coughs] No matter how hard you try to turn him against me, to screw with his head, so that he would hate my guts... and he still won't let you do it.

Gus

For now. But he'll come around. In the meantime, there's the matter of your brother-in-law. He is a problem you promised to resolve. You have failed. Now it's left to me to deal with him.

Walter

You can't.

Gus

If you try to interfere, this becomes a much simpler matter. I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. [hauntingly whispering] I will kill your infant daughter.

Gus

Do you know what is happening upstairs?

Jesse

I have a pretty good idea.

Gus

This is all a result of your former partner. Do you understand now? Do you see why this can't continue?

Jesse

You know, I get it, the guy is a complete and total dick, but I can't. I'm not signing off, okay? Like I said, if something... final... happens to Mr. White, we're going to have a problem. So what're you gonna do?

Gus

There will be an appropriate response.