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“ | You've been out of commission for four days. Think we're gonna shut down the whole operation just for you? | „ |
~ Tyrus to Walter White. |
“ | Go home, Walter. | „ |
~ Tyrus Kitt calling Walter undetected as the latter approaches Gus Fring's house to kill him. |
Tyrus Kitt is a supporting antagonist in Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul.
He was a member of the Los Pollos Hermanos security staff who later became closely subordinated with his employer Gus Fring, serving as the latter's prominent enforcer in the process.
The character was portrayed by Ray Campbell.
History[]
Background Information[]
Tyrus Kitt is a mysterious and ever watchful enforcer of Gus's skeleton team. His background origins, his personal connections to Gus as well as other elements of his life is mostly unknown and never explicitly elaborated upon, but only the year of his date of birth, being born in 1971.
Tyrus displays minimal expression of emotion or thoughts throughout his time in the series. He is as enigmatic as his employer and his co-workers, but is shown as extremely effective, unforgiving and aggressive in his role as an enforcer and overseer. He rarely speaks to Walter White or Jesse Pinkman except for the occasional reminder to continue work or stay in line, and is otherwise mostly quiet and hostile towards them.
Better Call Saul[]
Season 3[]
Tyrus is initially seen accompanying Gus to the desert while trailing Mike Ehrmantraut, who is holding up the note he discovered on his windshield.
When a truck carrying restaurant supplies drives up and Tyrus and Victor are seen working at a Los Pollos Hermanos Factory Farm, and grab narcotic pouches from the truck. There, Arturo Colon and Nacho Varga are gathering several pouches. When Nacho gets six instead of five pouches, Victor pulls a gun on him, while Tyrus calls Gus about Hector expects six instead of five. Gus approves of this and lets Nacho take six.
Season 4[]
In Gus' office, Tyrus and Gus discuss something. Tyrus delivers Gus an envelope holding Hector's medical chart and informs him about Hector's condition, treatment, and outlook. Tyrus is instructed by Gus not to go back to the hospital, but rather to schedule a meeting with Victor. At the Los Pollos Hermanos farm, Tyrus and Victor are seen setting out packages on a table. Despite Arturo's insistence on six packages, only five were placed on the table.
Following Arturo's death, Tyrus is traveling in the Cadillac down a desert road with Nacho and Victor, who is driving Arturo's vehicle. Nacho observes the two guys take Arturo's body out of the car's trunk, set it on the driver's seat, and then shoot at the vehicle, while Victor shot Arturo in the head. Victor then shoots Nacho in the shoulder as he is being shoved into the car. Victor shoots Nacho in the stomach as he exits the vehicle, as Tyrus claims to make it look real. Tyrus gives Nacho a phone so he may call for help.
Tyrus and Victor flanked Gus as he confronted Mike at the Los Pollos Hermanos Factory Farm, where he knew that Mike was aware of Nacho's plan against Hector but did nothing to stop it. Tyrus walks into the warehouse where Werner's team is living in trailers. He alerts Gus about a bad contamination. Mike informs Tyrus on the list of necessities after Gus leaves. While Tyrus is operating a truck outside Lavandera Brillante, several workers prepare a detonator. They work together to time the truck's impact with the iron sheeting on the street to coincide with the charges are detonated.
Season 5[]
Tyrus and his group goes to Nacho's house and has him pin down and bring him to his car. They bring him to a restaurant where Nacho's father is and watches him being threaten by Gus and Victor. Later, he meets with Gus and Nacho in an electric substation. Nacho tells them that Krazy-8 is an DEA informant and mentions the names Hank Schrader and Steve Gomez, who are dealing with Saul Goodman. Tyrus tries to call the dead drop locations to shut them down, but Nacho and Gus stop him since they think Lalo could have heard a conversation if the DEA doesn't find the money. After their journey across the desert, Mike and Jimmy are picked up by Tyrus and Victor at a truck stop. They tell Mike and Jimmy that Gus sent several guys to clean up the scene of the shootout on the way back to town.
Season 6[]
Tyrus raises a gun in Mike's face as he disagrees to Gus' order to threaten Manuel Varga in order to get Nacho to listen. A call from Nacho defuses the situation before Gus can command Tyrus to do anything. Tyrus and Victor are present with Gus as their bodyguards during the meeting with the cartel questioning Nacho's betrayal. During the operation in finding Lalo Salamanca, Tyrus is threatened by Mike's growing authority and decisions. In the aftermath of Lalo's death, Tyrus operates an excavator to bury the bodies of Lalo and Howard Hamlin under the super lab.
Breaking Bad[]
Season 4[]
Tyrus is first seen arriving at the super lab a few days after Victor's death to assist Mike Ehrmantraut in picking up the daily shipments of "blue sky" from Gus's meth super lab. His sudden presence quickly establishes his role as Walt and Jesse's new main overseer and Gus's left hand enforcer, under Mike in rank. He effectively assumes Victor's surveillance duties, being shown to constantly watch Walt and Jesse wherever they go.
Tyrus is later seen sitting parked in his car, watching Jesse's house. When a squatter makes off with a bag full of Jesse's money, he notifies Mike. The two catch the thief, returning the bag to Jesse who is, surprisingly, indifferent to the money's absence.
Tyrus later confronts the three laundry women Walt hired to clean the super lab, and proceeds to "put them on a bus back to Honduras. He is later seen in his car re-assigned to watching Hank at his house, at which point Walt notices his expanded surveillance of his family and calls the police to pressure Tyrus to leave. Mike later threatens to kill Walt the next time he calls the police on one of his men. Some time after, Walt catches Tyrus watching Hank's house once more.
Tyrus takes charge of Gus's operation and continues to oversee Walt working in the super lab while Gus, Mike, and Jesse head to Mexico to meet and deal with The Cartel. Walt tries to set up Tyrus for shorting the shipment by weighing the last crate heavy by a few ounces. Tyrus catches him at this and is visibly hostile at the attempt.
After Jesse and Gus return from Mexico with Jesse's loyalties firmly within Gus's grasp, Tyrus effectively becomes Gus's primary enforcer while Mike is still hospitalized from their encounter with the Cartel in Mexico, and is seen watching Walt and Jesse in the super lab, as well as continuing to watch Hank.
Tyrus later happily attacks Walt with a taser baton outside Jesse's House when Gus orders him to. He then takes Walt, hooded, to meet Gus in the desert, who warns Walt not to interfere with their handling of Hank, whose relentless self investigation of Gus's organization has come too close to exposing him. Jesse stops Gus and consequently Tyrus from killing him due to his previous loyalty to Walt still lingering on. Gus however still evidently has Tyrus prepared to kill him when Jesse falters, assigning Tyrus and several of his men to watch and shadow Walt and his family. Walt immediately panics after his kidnapping into the desert and meets Saul to arrange for his family to disappear. He also pleads with Saul to make a tip-off call to the DEA claiming that the cartel has renewed the hit on Hank as a means of warning his brother-in-law in directly. Saul does so reluctantly but loyally. However, Tyrus is alerted, and continues to track Walt, Jesse and Walt's family.
In the final episode of Season Four, Gus' archenemy Hector Salamanca is seen heading to the DEA office - presumably to speak with Hank about Gus' criminal activities. Tyrus was watching him, and he alerts his employer about this; Gus subsequently assigns Tyrus to scan Salamanca's nursing home. Tyrus proceeds to check Salamanca's room for bugs and traps, along with other potential dangers within the area.
By the time Tyrus has finished, he is narrowly left unaware that Walt is hiding nearby after meeting up with Hector to come up with an elaborate plan to kill Gus once and for all. Tyrus then informs his employer about the update on Hector, after which Gus decides to kill his enemy for good and tells Tyrus that he is on his way; Tyrus initially suggests that he voluntarily kill Hector for his employer, but Gus insists on doing it himself.
Later on, Gus meets up with Tyrus at the nursing home. He has Tyrus secure the perimeter once more, after which Tyrus - under Gus' instructions - readies a poisonous needle for Gus to inject into Salamanca. However, Walt and Salamanca's trap catches them off-guard as Salamanca furiously begins ringing his bell. Gus realizes what Hector is doing, but only has time to shout; the bomb detonates before either of Gus and Tyrus can effectively react and both are killed along with Hector as a result.