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| “ | All his bullshit aside, it's called a cook. See, everything comes down to following a recipe. Simple, complicated, it doesn't matter. The steps never change, and I know every step. | „ |
| ~ Victor explaining himself to Gus, and his last words. |
Victor is a supporting antagonist in Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul.
He was a high-ranking member of Gus Fring's drug empire who served as one of his loyal henchmen.
He was portrayed by Jeremiah Bitsui.
Biography[]
Better Call Saul[]
Season 3[]
During his pursuit of the man that interfered with his attempted assassination of Hector Salamanca, Mike Ehrmantraut's investigation eventually leads him to Los Pollos Hermanos, where a tracker he tricked Gus' men into recovering changes hands with Victor. He follows him into the desert, only to find his tracker abandoned in the middle of the road alongside a cell phone, which gives him a direct line to Gus. Upon receiving a phone call, Mike meets him in person while Victor and Tyrus Kitt accompany their boss as his bodyguards.
After willingly joining Gus in his crusade against the Salamancas, Mike is visited by Victor after a successful job with payment. When he attempts to give it to Mike however, the older man refuses, surprising Victor.
When a shipment of cocaine bricks arrives at Los Pollos Hermanos' chicken farm, Victor and Tyrus receive them, only to be visited by Nacho Varga and Arturo Colon who are supposed to receive several bricks to sell on behalf of Don Hector. Things get tense when Nacho's attempt at taking an extra brick leads to Victor pulling a gun on him, but he relents after learning that Gus approves of the transaction.
During a meeting between Gus and Hector, Victor bears witness to the Salamanca patriarch throwing a fit over the news that Don Eladio wishes to exclusively run drugs through Gus' distribution network, leading to him nearly having a heart attack in the process.
Season 4[]
When a sudden heart attack results in Hector being hospitalized, Gus suspects that Nacho had something to do with it due to his shifty behavior. He has Victor tail him, and his suspicions are confirmed when Victor catches Nacho dumping the sugar pills he gave Hector in a river. A furious Gus seeks to punish Nacho for trying to kill his hated enemy, so he lays a trap for him during the next cocaine brick exchange.
Initially only offering five bricks for Nacho and Arturo with the justification that they can offer as much as they want with Hector in the hospital, Victor finds himself held at gunpoint by Nacho, who demands a sixth. Tyrus convinces him to comply, and he does. As Nacho and Arturo walk away with the latter joking about how they made Victor "piss his pants", they're suddenly ambushed by Gus and the rest of his men. While Gus throws a plastic bag over Arturo's head, Victor helps restrain him so he'll suffocate to death while Nacho is forced to watch at gunpoint. As Arturo dies, Gus makes it clear that going forward, Nacho will be working on Gus' behalf against the Salamancas whether he likes it or not.
On Gus' orders, Victor and Tyrus stage a cartel ambush so that the Salamancas won't suspect that their boss had a hand in Arturo's death. After setting the stage with broken glass, bullet casings, and a spike trap, Victor and Tyrus fill the car with bullets before Victor himself shoots Arturo's corpse. He then turns the gun to Nacho and shoots him as well, taking sadistic joy from hurting him while Tyrus justifies it with having to "make it look real".
Season 5[]
When the brilliant, devious Lalo Salamanca proves to be a huge threat to Gus' operation, Gus has Nacho kidnapped and driven off to a restaurant that his father is visiting. Victor goes inside and makes friendly small-talk with Mr. Varga before returning to the car and subtly threatening to kill him if Nacho doesn't help spy on Lalo.
Season 6[]
After Nacho seemingly gets Lalo killed in an elaborate assassination orchestrated by Gus, he's forced to give himself up to the Salamancas and die in order to obscure Gus' role in Lalo's apparent death. Before Gus hands him over, he orders Victor to beat Nacho up since, as Victor says, it'll be suspicious if he looks "Too pretty" when the Salamancas get their hands on him. A disgusted Mike promptly dismisses the smirking Victor, since he wants to mitigate the younger man's suffering as much as he can.
On the day of Nacho's death, Victor is ordered to shoot him after he convinces the Salamancas and Juan Bolsa that he killed Lalo on the orders of a Peruvian cartel looking to muscle in on their operation. Despite being tempted to rat out Gus, Nacho nonetheless does what he's told and successfully sells his story to the Salamancas. But Victor is unable to kill Nacho, because after he tears into the Salamancas and reveals that he's the one who crippled Hector, he promptly takes Bolsa hostage and grabs his gun before committing suicide - dying on his own terms and robbing everyone else the satisfaction of killing him. Nonetheless, Victor walks off smirking, visibly satisfied with Nacho's death.
Breaking Bad[]
Season 2[]
Victor is first seen as a fellow customer at Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant, Walter White came to look for Gus Fring. He quickly confronts Walt and offers him Gus' non-negotiable offer to purchase Walter's meth and arrange for delivery in one hour. Victor then tells Walt that if he doesn't show up within the hour, to "never show his face around here ever again".
Season 3[]
In one of Gus' faculties, Victor informs Gus that the Cousins are about to kill Walt at his home.
When Jesse Pinkman decides to cook meth again and looking for a new buyer for his new product, Gus sends Victor to deliver the money to him. However, Jesse complains that it's only half of the money, Victor tells him that's his half. Later, while Walt sits in his car at a red light, Victor pulls up next to him and tosses the other half of the money to his window, telling him, "Your half," before driving away. It was later revealed that Gus sent Victor to give half of the money to Jesse to convince Walt to cook again.
When Gale Boetticher was replaced by Jesse, Victor escorts him out of the lab. Walt tells Victor that this decision is for the best, which Victor reminds him, "200 pounds a week. Got it?".
Soon trouble emerges when Gus finds out from Walt that Jesse plans to murder two of his employees over an incident; thereafter he summons his right-hand man, Mike Ehrmantraut, as well as Victor himself to intercept Jesse and bring him to his chicken farm. Then a meeting is held between Jesse, the rival dealers, Walt and Gus while both Mike and Victor are authorized to observe the meeting.
Later on after Walt kills the rival dealers, he tells Gus that Jesse is "at least two time zones away." Walt suspects that Gus is planning to kill Jesse since he has Victor guarding the lab and monitoring their conversations. Walt conspires with Jesse in secret to kill Gale and make sure that he is indispensable as the only remaining cook.
When Walt prepares to kill Gale, Victor catches him and said that there's a chemical leak in the lab. Walt reluctantly goes wrong with him and greeted by Mike as they arrive. Walt begs Mike to spare him and offer to turn Jesse over. He convinces Mike and Victor to allow him to call Jesse using his cell phone. However, Walt instructs Jesse to Gale's apartment and murder him. When both Mike and Victor realize what Walt has done, Mike holds Walt at gunpoint and attempts to warm Gale whilst Victor races to the apartment to stop Jesse from killing Gale - but this fails as Jesse reluctantly kills Gale just before Victor could arrive in time.
Season 4[]
After arriving at the scene of Gale's murder at the former's apartment, Victor is seen by the victim's neighbors; he flees just as who later described him to the authorities. Upon leaving the apartment, he notices Jesse sitting in his car in shock. Victor holds Jesse at gunpoint and orders him to go to the lab.
It soon turns out that Victor studied Walt's chemistry while watching over him and learned the process of cooking meth. After bringing Jesse back to the lab and while waiting for Gus' arrival, Victor argues with Walt when the latter attempts to call him out for cooking the meth wrong; however, Victor does manage to prove to do a rather exceptional job than Walt expected despite his concerns. Soon Gus arrives at the lab, where he picks up a box cutter before standing next to Victor and facing both Walt and Jesse.
At first, it becomes apparent that Gus is preparing to kill Jesse and Walt as the latter pleads for their lives, all the while Victor watches on. But then Gus suddenly grabs Victor and slices his throat, shocking Mike and the two chemists; Victor could only react in pain and shock as blood spouts out of his neck, and he fruitlessly tries to escape Gus' grip, moments before he ultimately succumbs and dies of his injuries. Shortly afterwards, Gus drops Victor's lifeless body on the ground and leaves the lab after telling everyone else to "Get back to work". Victor's body is later dissolved by Walter and Jesse in hydrofluoric acid along with the box cutter and the murder weapon that was used on Gale.
While Walt believes that Gus killed Victor just to "send a message", it is mainly believed that Gus had done it because Mike had told him that Victor had exposed himself at the scene of Gale's murder - henceforth Victor would most likely have posed a risk for Gus and his drug empire. Victor's death would later be avenged when Gus and his top henchman Tyrus Kitt are both killed by Gus' archenemy, Hector Salamanca, in a bomb explosion that Walt had orchestrated as part of his resolve to kill Gus once and for all.
Season 5[]
Victor is mentioned by Walter White, who states his belief that Gus murdered him because he "flew too close to the sun", that is taking responsibilities that weren't his.
Personality[]
Stoic, serious, and loyal to a fault, Victor is one of Gus' most dependable enforcers. He's a man of few words and outside of Gus, Mike, and Tyrus, is often rude and dismissive towards those he interacts with. Furthermore, his emotional coldness, lack of people skills, and sadistic love of inflicting pain on others show that Victor is a sociopath at his core.
While an intelligent man, Victor is also incredibly arrogant, as shown by his attempt at trying to usurp Walt's position as Gus' cook by cooking a batch of meth without his permission or the training needed to ensure a quality product. Ultimately his hubris proves to be his undoing, with this stunt as well as him being seen at Gale's apartment giving Gus the justification he needs to kill him for being a nuisance.
Trivia[]
- The way that Walt and Jesse dispose of Victor's body echoes a similar event earlier in the show, when Jesse was disposing of Emilio Koyama's corpse in the exact same way.
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See Also[]
- Victor on the Breaking Bad Wiki
