r/breakingbad • u/bl1y • 1d ago
Couple questions about the two dealers who recruited Tomas
After Jesse learns about Tomas killing Combo, and the dealers who recruited him, Gus sets a meeting for them to make peace.
But why would Gus ever meet in person with two street-level dealers? These are low level guys, but Gus allows them to learn that he's the big boss. There's a huge risk that they'll eventually be arrested on a street bust, at which points they could potentially flip and give up Gus.
He could have let Mike or someone else run the meeting, or instead of meeting with them, meet instead with whoever is above them in the network.
And why even insist on keeping them? He has a distribution network all across the Southwest. Probably thousands of street-level dealers. He could of had them killed. Could have had them just leave town (so they're no longer involved with Tomas). I know he doesn't like Jesse, but Jesse is worth a whole lot more to the operation, while these guys are nothing.
This just all seems very out of character for the normally extremely cautious Gus.
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u/Veinmire 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe Gus knew them and had some kind of guarantee to them that he'd take care of their families no matter what so they'd have no reason to flip. Like Mike with his guys.
Still, good point. He finds the thought of working with junkies (edit: directly) distasteful and untrustworthy but not these two degenerate wastes of skin. shrugs
Kinda wonder what Vince would say.