MovieChat Forums > Breaking Bad (2008) Discussion > How Gus Fring knew there was a bomb in h...

How Gus Fring knew there was a bomb in his car?


This is the thing that botter me the most, there is not clue, nothing suspicious in the garage but while walking to his car in some point Gus just stop and feel the danger? who is this guy Spiderman?

I mis something, was there a real reason to Gus to suspect about the bomb?

Or is this just some lazy writting?

reply

I'm pretty sure this has been posted & debated here many times, but basically Gus started thinking back on his encounter with Jesse in the hospital, and him mentioning that Brock may have been poisoned. At that point, Gus probably realized that coupled with Jesse's insistence on staying there (& making Gus have to come down there himself) plus the fact that he had left his car unattended that it was a trap to lure him out into the open, most likely devised by Walt.

reply

SPEAKING OF LAZY WRITING.πŸ™„

reply

The last thing I need in my life is some random cuck obsessed with me please don't stalk me

reply

ARE YOU OF BELOW AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE OR DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW THIS SITE WORKS?πŸ€”

reply

Sorry but I have a life, this forum is just a way of killing time for me, at difference of you I'm not interested in having a 24 hours per day activity here with twenty thousand comments

reply

NOT THAT IT MATTERS..BUT NOBODY IS HERE 24 HOURS A DAY...MOST,LIKE MYSELF CHECK IN HERE AND THERE...AND AT NIGHT I WATCH MOVIES WITH MY DAUGHTER AND POST AS AN ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT SOURCE.

BUT YOU COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT...IF...YOU WERE OF AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE OR WEREN'T SO STUBBORNLY OBSESSED WITH COMING OFF SO COOL AS TO IMPRESS EVERYONE.

reply

You understand I'm always just joking right? if not you have issues

And besides, you are lying nobody with so many weak comments can produce semen strong enough to impregnate a woman


reply

IF YOU ARE "ALWAYS JOKING"...WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?

reply

Is this becoming personal for you did I just touch a nerve in that little faggot heart yours? if that is so I'm glad

reply

JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THIS IS ENTERTAINING FOR YOU IF YOU DON'T REALLY CARE.

reply

Maybe I do care, maybe I don't, you never are going to know for sure, I'm a mysterious men

reply

ARE YOU THE SHOVELER?

reply

WTF is that?

reply

BLUE RAJA?

reply

I bet you are shitting your pants laughing like a fucking retard believing you make the joke of the century ΒΏdont you grammar fag?

reply

Geeez you guys are STILL going.......????

reply

WHAT JOKE?...I LOVE THE MYSTERY MEN...ARE YOU THE BOWLER?

reply

Mystery Men is a very flawed superhero movie, but it did have some hilarious moments.

reply

I think you and KOWALSKI should go get a (private) room to continue your chat, LOL.

reply

Well, in all fairness to Mr. ALL-CAPS, your post text IS a little.......disjointed & haphazard.

But, as I've pointed out elsewhere, not all MC users are native english speakers & probably run their post text thru a translator app. Which invariably spits out broken english.

I'm assuming that is the case with your post. If not, well..........you can always edit it after the fact.

Just saying......

reply

HE IS A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER.

"you can always edit it after the fact."


IF HE KNEW WHERE THE MISTAKES WERE,HE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE THEM.

reply

You might want to fix this part


NOT THAT IS MATTERS..BUT


PS I love you KOWALSKI

reply

FIXED AND APPRECIATED...I LOVE YOU TOO.😘

reply

❀❀❀❀❀

reply

I write the same way I do everything else like a man with my bare hands, not apps or any other shit, if you don't have enough testosterone to understand who gives a shit

reply

YOU SOUND LIKE MY DAD.🀨

reply

Is because I'm your father and let me tell you other things your dad have told you

What are you doing with your mom's dildo?

Stop playing with your sister's barbies or I would kick your ass

I dint buy you a baseball bat for that

I dint raise you for this

reply

BOY..YOU RATTLED THOSE OFF REAL QUICK...ALMOST AS IF YOU HAD HEARD THEM REPEATEDLY...YOUR WHOLE LIFE.πŸ€”

reply

You already forgot I'm your father

Well that stroke let you with Alzheimer and a weird obsession with write in capital letters but left your fagness intact

reply

but let your fagness intact


LMAO🀣

reply

I think you and KUNGFULORD should go get a (private) room to continue your chat, LOL.

reply

WE DID...THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO GET IT CLEAN.πŸ™‚

reply

Uh......is that directed at me, or Kowalski??

P.S. This thread has gone WAY off topic!!!!


Were we not supposed to be discussing what made Gus suspicious?

Which I offered my theory of in my initial response.......

..........And Which has since gotten lost in a flame war.......

reply

AIN'T MOVIECHAT GRAND?!

reply

LOL, now all we need is dbentley & sneakypete to REALLY drive this thread off the rails!!!!!

reply

Bad writing. It's about the only instance of bad writing in the entire series, but there it is. I actually find it all the more aggravating for that reason.

People argue that he knew "something was suspicious", but he was walking to the car with no indication of suspicion at all, then he just out of the blue figures this out.

They could have given any reason. They could have had him spot Walt across the way, the sunlight reflecting on his glasses or something - anything - but instead he just approaches the car, doesn't get in (for no reason), looks out over the world, and then leaves.

It drove me 'round the bend when it happened.

reply

........the sunlight reflecting on his glasses
.......


There was a lot of speculation on various message boards at the time on that exact point. My take on it (that I posted above, before it got lost in an off-topic flame war) is that Gus started thinking about WHY Jessie was so insistent about staying at the hospital & thus making him have to come there himself to try & get Jessie to come back to the lab. Gus probably started thinking " Wait a minute.....I know where Jessie is right now......but I DON'T KNOW where WALT is....."!!!!

reply

Sure. I know Gus is clever and that might be what set him off, but there was no specific catalyst other than plot armour, and it's the only time I noticed this kind of thing going on in Breaking Bad (I'm sure if I rewatched looking for it I could find others), but it's a totally different thing from how the writers handled the situation with Walt and Jesse in the RV and Hank outside, or how they had the train robbery go down. This was cheap and it felt cheap to me. One of my favourite shows? Yes. But this was cheap.

reply

but there was no specific catalyst other than plot armour....


I think Vince said on the DVD commentary for the episode that they wanted to have some kind of real explanation for Gus' suspicion but just couldn't come up with anything that worked, so they decided to just leave it at that & let the veiwers speculate on it.

reply

That doesn't surprise me. Whether they had a reason or not, none is apparent on-screen, and if it ain't on the screen, it ain't in the show. But, yeah, that doesn't surprise me one bit. I guess it was the one time they got lazy in an otherwise impeccable show writing streak.

reply

Well considering all that they had thrown into the season thus far, & the epic finale to come next episode, I'd imagine by that point they were pretty tapped out idea-wise. Can't hit a home run every time at bat, right?

reply

Apparently not. They knocked it outta the park every other episode, though.

reply

Those guys leaving Walt alive with a barrel containing millions of dollars was some even more outrageous plot armor.

reply

That was plot armour, but I think Gus being half bomb-sniffing dog annoys me more. At least there's the attempt to justify Jack's actions with his personal code and belief systems, even though his group are generally too anarchic to leave Walt alive (with cash).

reply