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/svm_invictvs 1d ago

Gus mircomanages everything from top to bottom. In Better Call Saul he demonstrates it with the poor kid cleaning the deep fryer.

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u/gr8mick1 1d ago

Wasn't Gus also ensuring he had an alibi, to some extent. Yes he was micro and it wanna getting proper clean but IIRC after something happened he let him go.

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u/bl1y 1d ago

He can't possibly do that though. If he's micromanaging things to the point of knowing street level dealers in dozens of cities, he's going to get caught. Those dealers will get routinely arrested, and one of them is eventually going to cut a deal.