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-->'''Saul''': (as he and Walt walk deeper into the building) Got your arcade here, all the latest video games. Snack bar's over there. Nothing stopping you from selling beer to the parents. That's a whole new revenue stream-
-->'''Walt''': (cutting Saul off) All right, already. We're good.
-->'''Saul''': (breaking character; panicked) ''Holy Christ.'' [[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe "We're good?!"]] This constitutes ''"good"'' where you're from?
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends abruptly as Jesse kills Gale, leaving Gus' reaction to it unknown.
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** One of the Cartel {{Mooks}} is distracted by Mike throwing a shoe and just blindly charges in that direction while Mike waits next to the doorway and shoots him while his back is turned.

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** One of the Cartel {{Mooks}} is distracted by Mike throwing a shoe and just blindly charges in that direction direction, gun blazing, while Mike waits next to the doorway and shoots him while his back is turned.

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* TooDumbToLive: A more cautious criminal would have their burner phone on them at all times, have a peephole and/or chain lock on their door in case an assassin, rival dealer, or police came to their home, and possibly have a gun on them as a last means of personal defense. Gale just goes on his merry way listening to music while leaving his phone on vibrate on a table so he can't hear it go off when Mike tries calling to warn him about Jesse. He also swiftly answers the door letting Jesse walk in instead of peeking through or even asking "who's there?" and is completely unarmed leaving himself at Jesse's mercy.

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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
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A more cautious criminal would have their burner phone on them at all times, have a peephole and/or chain lock on their door in case an assassin, rival dealer, or police came to their home, and possibly have a gun on them as a last means of personal defense. Gale just goes on his merry way listening to music while leaving his phone on vibrate on a table so he can't hear it go off when Mike tries calling to warn him about Jesse. He also swiftly answers the door letting Jesse walk in instead of peeking through or even asking "who's there?" and is completely unarmed leaving himself at Jesse's mercy.mercy.
** One of the Cartel {{Mooks}} is distracted by Mike throwing a shoe and just blindly charges in that direction while Mike waits next to the doorway and shoots him while his back is turned.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: Mike draws one of the Cartel guards by tossing a shoe, then shoots him as he runs past.
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Mike interrogates Saul as to Jesse's location. He gives Mike the address of a home in a trailer park. Unbeknownst to Mike, the address leads nowhere: Saul and Walt are hiding Jesse at the laser tag arena Saul had [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E11Abiquiu suggested Walt buy to launder his money.]] Walt explains that he is safe only as long as it takes for Gale to build up the confidence to cook Walt's formula and run the lab on his own. Jesse suggests that Walt turn himself into the DEA and go into witness protection with his family in exchange for giving Gus to the feds, while Jesse skips town, but Walt refuses. Instead, he suggests that he can secure their safety if he is the only chemist. Jesse, realizing this would mean Gale's death, echoes a [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures statement Walt made about him when he was originally conspiring to kill Gus's dealers:]] "I'm not a murderer". Walt offers to do the deed instead; all he would need from Jesse is Gale's address, since Victor is tailing Walt and he can't find it himself. Jesse is still reluctant to take part in the plan, but Walt reminds him that he [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures saved his life]] and expects Jesse to return the favor. Jesse finally agrees.

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Mike interrogates Saul as to Jesse's location. He gives Mike the address of a home in a trailer park.park in Virginia. Unbeknownst to Mike, the address leads nowhere: Saul and Walt are hiding Jesse at the laser tag arena Saul had [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E11Abiquiu suggested Walt buy to launder his money.]] Walt explains that he is safe only as long as it takes for Gale to build up the confidence to cook Walt's formula and run the lab on his own. Jesse suggests that Walt turn himself into the DEA and go into witness protection with his family in exchange for giving Gus to the feds, while Jesse skips town, but Walt refuses. Instead, he suggests that he can secure their safety if he is the only chemist. Jesse, realizing this would mean Gale's death, echoes a [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures statement Walt made about him when he was originally conspiring to kill Gus's dealers:]] "I'm not a murderer". Walt offers to do the deed instead; all he would need from Jesse is Gale's address, since Victor is tailing Walt and he can't find it himself. Jesse is still reluctant to take part in the plan, but Walt reminds him that he [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures saved his life]] and expects Jesse to return the favor. Jesse finally agrees.

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->Written and directed by Creator/VinceGilligan

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->Written and directed by Creator/VinceGilliganCreator/VinceGilligan\\
Air date: June 13, 2010
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Walter does this by ordering Gale's death to save himself. While this is the only way he can survive Gus's machinations without turning himself in, Jesse makes it clear that he really ''would'' prefer it if Walt turned himself in.]]

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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Walter Walter does this by ordering Gale's death to save himself. While this is the only way he can survive Gus's machinations without turning himself in, Jesse makes it clear that he really ''would'' prefer it if Walt turned himself in.]]

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'''Season 3, Episode 13:'''
!Full Measure



[[caption-width-right:350:''It's got to be you, Jesse...'']]
->''"I saved your life, Jesse... are you gonna save mine?"''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''It's got [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's gonna have to be you, Jesse...'']]
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->Written and directed by Creator/VinceGilligan

->''"Look, I
saved your life, Jesse... are you gonna save mine?"''







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--> '''Walt:''' I would never [[ExactWords ask you that]].

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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Walter starts begging for his life and offers them Jesse's location in exchange for his safety. Given that Fring's original dispute was with Jesse, Mike allows Walter to call Jesse in order to lure him into the open. It's all a ploy: Walt uses this opportunity to give a pre-planned order to Jesse, resulting in him assassinating Gale.

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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Walter starts begging for his life and offers them Jesse's location in exchange for his safety. Given that Fring's original dispute was with Jesse, Mike allows Walter to call Jesse in order to lure him into the open. [[SubvertedTrope It's all a ploy: ploy]]: Walt uses this opportunity to give a pre-planned order to Jesse, resulting in him assassinating Gale.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Saul dismisses himself after reuniting Walt and Jesse at the arcade, and with him brings any kind of comedy the episode had.
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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Walter starts begging for his life and offers them Jesse's location in exchange for his safety. Given that Fring's original dispute was with Jesse, Mike allows Walter to call Jesse in order to lure him into the open. It's all a ploy: Walt uses this opportunity to give a pre-planned order to Jesse, resulting in him assassinating Gale.

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* SpotTheThread: Saul drives Walt out to a laser tag place as a possible money laundering location. They go inside and go deep into the back, looking at it all-
-->'''Walt''': All right, already. We're good.
-->'''Saul''': (dropping the act) Holy Christ... [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe We're good? This constitutes good where you're from?!]][[note]]Saul's car may have been bugged and Victor was tailing them, so they went to the laser tag place to talk to Jesse.[[/note]]

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* KickTheDog:
** Mike's threat to break Saul's legs if he doesn't give Jesse up to Gus.

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KickTheDog: Mike's threat to break Saul's legs if he doesn't give Jesse up to Gus.

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** Walter does this by ordering Gale's death to save himself. As Jesse points out he could have avoided murder if he simply went to the DEA and confessed.


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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Walter does this by ordering Gale's death to save himself. While this is the only way he can survive Gus's machinations without turning himself in, Jesse makes it clear that he really ''would'' prefer it if Walt turned himself in.]]
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* FaceDeathWithDespair: Gale spends what appear to be his last moments trying to talk down Jesse, who's also on the verge of tears, not to shoot him.
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Then, he pulls the trigger...

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->''"You don't have to do this..."''

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->''"You don't have to do this...this."''
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->''"I saved your life Jesse... are you gonna save mine?"''

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->''"I saved your life life, Jesse... are you gonna save mine?"''
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->''"You don't have to do this..."''
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->''"I saved your life, Jesse...are you gonna save mine?"''

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->''"I saved your life, Jesse...life Jesse... are you gonna save mine?"''
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* AintTooProudToBeg:
** Walt begs Mike to just let him talk to Gus instead of killing him, no matter how many times Mike says he just can't do it. This prompts him to say he can give them Jesse Pinkman instead in exchange for his own life... [[SubvertedTrope which is just a gambit to get Jesse on the phone and have him kill Gale instead]]. As soon as the table is turned, he's cool as a cucumber.
** Gale is left helpless when Jesse arrives at his door, only able to meekly plead that Jesse doesn't have to do this. Unfortunately, Jesse goes through with it.
* AmbiguousSituation: Gus coats his job for Gale in language that implies Walt is only about to die from the cancer, rather than revealing that Gus intends to have Walt killed and have Gale replace him. This leads Gale to quickly amend his timetable for how fast he can take over the gig, but it's not stated outright whether Gale sees the writing on the wall and is going along with it or genuinely thinks Gus is just preparing for Walt to die from his cancer.


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* BaitAndSwitch: Saul and Walt are in Saul's car going to check out the laser tag place he keeps mentioning as a money laundering site. After they go in, we see that Victor is following them. It cuts to inside, where Saul is still shilling the benefits of the laser tag place, only for Walt to stop him and say that they're okay now, revealing that they knew they were being followed and played up an act in case Saul's car was bugged.


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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mike weaponizes the balloons his granddaughter gave him earlier that day during the assault on Gus's compound by releasing them straight into the power lines, cutting off the power inside.

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* CouldSayItBut: When Mike tries forcing Jesse's location out of Saul, he refuses... at least until Mike tries to attack. This prompts Saul to mention the "possibility" of having written it down in his day planner before excusing himself from the room, asking Mike not to touch anything while he's gone.
** [[SubvertedTrope By the way, that address he wrote down goes nowhere.]]

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* CouldSayItBut: When Mike tries forcing Jesse's location out of Saul, he refuses... at least until Mike tries to attack. This prompts Saul to mention the "possibility" of having written it down in his day planner before excusing himself from the room, asking Mike not to touch anything while he's gone.
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gone. [[SubvertedTrope By the way, that The address he wrote down in the planner goes nowhere.]]nowhere]].
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->''"I saved your life Jesse...are you gonna save mine?"''

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->''"I saved your life life, Jesse...are you gonna save mine?"''

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