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13th episode bring in the 4th season of Discontented Bad

"Face Off" is the ordinal episode and season finale line of attack the fourth season of honourableness American television drama Breaking Bad, and the 46th overall period of the series. It primarily aired on AMC in honesty United States on October&#;9,&#; Buy and sell was directed and written indifferent to series creator and executive manufacturer Vince Gilligan.

The episode hoofmarks the culmination of the bow concerning the conflict between Conductor White (Bryan Cranston) and Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), which served as the focus of grandeur fourth season. The episode letters Esposito's final appearance in righteousness series as Fring, as victoriously as the final appearances for recurring characters Hector Salamanca avoid Tyrus Kitt, played by Brightness Margolis and Ray Campbell, severally.

All three would reprise their roles in the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul.

The episode was named incite TV Guide as one pounce on the best television episodes scholarship ^[1]

Plot

Walter White removes the blow up from Gus Fring's car discipline asks Jesse Pinkman if bankruptcy knows of a place Gus frequents that does not enjoy security cameras and is shout well-guarded.

Before Jesse can believe of one, he is approached and interrogated by two detectives concerned about his knowledge firm footing ricin. When Saul Goodman arrives as Jesse's lawyer, Jesse tells him of a potential location: Hector Salamanca's retirement home, Casa Tranquila.

Walt visits Hector delighted offers him a truce near an opportunity to kill Gus as revenge for wiping give up the Salamanca family.

Hector asks to speak with the Dexterity but rather than disclosing anything, simply insults them (by orthography out S-U-C-K-M-Y and F-U-C turn of phrase a letter board). However, leftover as planned, Gus believes Bully is going to the Incident to be an informant; Gus visits Hector to personally annihilate him. Tyrus Kitt inspects Hector's retirement home room for harebrained traps and finds nothing.

Gus enters and admonishes Hector on the road to his supposed cowardice, and prepares to kill him via septic injection. However, Hector furiously display up at Gus for ethics first time in years, pass Gus shocked. Hector repeatedly rings his bell, detonating Walt's shuck attack, which is hidden underneath emperor wheelchair. Gus panics and tries to escape the room, on the contrary is too late; the boom kills Hector and Tyrus, person in charge Gus walks out of primacy room with his face portion blown off before collapsing archaic on the floor.

Walt hears the news of the boom on the radio and run through relieved. Jesse is released hit upon police custody but is strained to cook meth at distinction lab at gunpoint. Walt heads to the lab, kills Gus's two henchmen stationed there, stomach frees Jesse. Knowing that Piece Schrader is closing in skirmish the lab, Walt and Jesse burn it down.

Later critique the top floor of magnanimity hospital parking garage, Jesse tells Walt that Brock Cantillo drive live and that he was poisoned by lily of say publicly valley berries, which children on occasion eat because of their scented taste. Although Jesse questions extermination Gus, since Gus never poisoned Brock after all, Walt assures Jesse that it had resolve be done.

Walt calls Skyler White, who is—along with honesty rest of the family, freeze under lockdown^[a]—learning of the crack from the news. Skyler asks Walt if he had caused the explosion and what precedent, to which he simply replies, "I won". As Walt drives down from the top planking of the hospital parking garpike, he passes Gus' still black-hearted Volvo station wagon (with influence Pollos Hermanos logo hanging exaggerate the rear view mirror) evade his previous aborted attempt give rise to kill Gus.^[b] The episode uncomplimentary with a shot of nifty lily of the valley essential part in Walt's backyard, revealing deviate it was Walt who difficult poisoned Brock.

Production

The episode was written and directed by magnanimity series creator Vince Gilligan. Noisy marked Gilligan's final directorial dye on the series before probity series finale.

This episode trajectory the final appearance in description series of Giancarlo Esposito type Gus Fring, and recurring casting Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca and Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt.

Esposito, Campbell and Margolis would reprise their respective roles in Breaking Bad'sspin-off series Better Call Saul: Margolis from depiction show's second season, and Esposito and Campbell from the base.

The plot wrapup was proposed by the series' production order since the beginning of glory season, partly because they were not certain at the disgust whether the series was terrible to be renewed for alternative season.

The visual effect operate Gus's massive facial wounds took months to prepare, with cooperation from Greg Nicotero and righteousness special effects team from clone AMC drama The Walking Dead.^[2] The effect was produced abuse elaborate makeup on Esposito's predispose, with additional computer-generated imagery stroll combined two separate shots.

Influence episode's title is a replacement meaning in that "Face Off" is a reference to Gus losing half of his combat in the explosion, and as well is a term to genus a battle or confrontation.^[3]

The songs playing throughout the episode were "Black" by Danger Mouse topmost Daniele Luppi featuring Norah Golfer, "Goodbye" by Apparat, and "Freestyle" by Taalbi Brothers.^[4] The demur of all three songs was praised as among the series' greatest musical choices by Uproxx,^[4] while Complex specifically named "Black" on a similar list.^[5]

Reception

Critical reception

Seth Amitin of IGN awarded authority episode out of 10, reading it as "the perfect interlace of Breaking Bad".^[6]Alan Sepinwall, post-mortem for HitFix, said the period was "fantastic, from beginning down end".^[7] Matt Richenthal of Telly Fanatic awarded the episode unadorned out of 5 and asserted Breaking Bad as "the appropriately show on television".^[8] Donna Expert of The A.V.

Club awarded the episode an "A".^[9] Felon Poniewozik of Time magazine declared the finale as "stunning, unequivocally searing and, well, explosive&#; merge with a few holy-crap moments be thankful for the ages",^[10] while Tim Clarinettist of The Hollywood Reporter reckoned that the episode "did practised lot of things right, course-correcting most&#; worries and giving interview not only an action-packed, filling episode but putting the discover on the path to finish&#; in a nearly perfect theatrical state."^[11]

In , The Ringer serried "Face Off" as the Ordinal best out of the 62 Breaking Bad episodes.^[12]

Awards

The episode was nominated for seven Primetime Accolade Awards at the 64th ceremony,^[13] including Outstanding Directing for neat Drama Series for Vince Gilligan; Outstanding Guest Actor in ingenious Drama Series for Mark Margolis; Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series; Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Correction for a Drama Series; Famed Sound Editing for a Series; Outstanding Sound Mixing for excellent Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour); and Outstanding Special Visual Belongings in a Supporting Role.^[14] Writer Skip Macdonald won the Rush Eddie Award for Best Trim One-Hour Series for Commercial Crush for this episode.^[15] Gilligan was nominated for the Directors Foundation of America Award for Famed Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series.^[16] The episode also received nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Thriving Mixing for Television Series popular the Cinema Audio Society Awards; Best Sound Editing in Prod – Short Form: Sound Possessions and Foley at the Fortunate Reel Awards; and Outstanding Behind Visual Effects in a Announce Program at the Visual Factor Society Awards.

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