Their unlikely mentor/mentee bond in BB’s back end was a kind of mutual redemption and recovery for them both, though as we know, Mike ultimately had too many wounds to heal. Each man had, at some point, been compelled to join a support group only to lash out before leaving, and each had done terrible things for terrible bosses. In retrospect, it was only apt that Mike would wind up taking Jesse under his wing.
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Gale’s was a far more inelegant death, occurring in the doorway of his dim apartment rather than in some pastoral Whitman-worthy scene, and at the hands of a far more inexperienced and jittery assailant than Mike. Several years later in Breaking Bad, Gale’s fate would mirror Werner’s, his face an unsparing foot or so from the barrel of Jesse Pinkman’s gun. Then, like the narrator in Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” - the very text so admired by Gus’s protégé Gale Boetticher - Werner stared at those New Mexico stars in a silence so perfect it could only be shattered by a bullet cutting through air.
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The cruelty of life in Gus Fring’s employ was underscored less by Werner’s no-way-out conundrum than having had to belittle Margarethe in their final conversation in order to steer her back on a plane to Germany and clear from him. The reality of his situation didn’t entirely sink in until he and Mike were eye to eye at the raceway, stuck at an impasse that would only come unjammed once Werner accepted his fate and took a bullet to the head. He nearly soiled himself a couple episodes back while rewiring blast explosives, but couldn’t have been more composed waiting for Margarethe to arrive at Dulce Vega. Werner was never able to see when the real danger was coming.
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