Gus Fring

To Albuquerque, Gustavo Fring is a model citizen: the courteous owner of the Los Pollos Hermanos chicken chain, a generous donor to local causes, a friend of the police. He came north from Chile by way of Mexico, his past deliberately hard to trace. Behind the restaurants and an industrial laundry he runs the most disciplined methamphetamine business in the Southwest, with a hidden superlab beneath the laundry floor. Years earlier he founded Los Pollos Hermanos with his partner Max, until a cartel boss had Max killed in front of him by the pool. Gus kept smiling, kept working with the cartel and waited, sometimes for decades, to settle accounts. He brought in Walter White as his cook and Mike Ehrmantraut as his enforcer, outmanoeuvred the Salamancas one by one and never raised his voice. In the end it was old Hector Salamanca, in a nursing home with a bell, who took him with him. Gus walked out of the blast and straightened his tie before he fell.