94 Facts About Huell Babineaux

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Huell Babineaux comes to find his new status as a drug lord psychologically rewarding, leading him to become increasingly willing to resort to criminal acts such as theft, extortion, money laundering, depraved indifference, and murder.

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Huell Babineaux has had several meager sources of income: writing short stories, selling items on eBay, working as a bookkeeper, and ultimately helping her husband launder money.

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Huell Babineaux is horrified by the brutality at the higher levels of the drug trade particularly during later seasons, but remains involved with Walt out of necessity.

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Huell Babineaux is very protective of children; his desire to keep children out of the violent drug world gives rise to several key events throughout the series.

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Huell Babineaux wrestles with feelings of guilt about the deaths, all drug-related, of people he has been associated with.

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Huell Babineaux is involved in investigating a meth dealer known as "Heisenberg, " unaware for over a year that his prey is actually Walter.

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Huell Babineaux appears self-centered and shallow but cares deeply for her husband and her sister's family.

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Huell Babineaux tries to take Holly with her, but Hank commands her to return the baby.

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Huell Babineaux is later seen two months later in her house, now with blue instead of purple trim, warning Skyler to watch out for Walt.

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Huell Babineaux has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches.

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Huell Babineaux is reluctant to be associated with violence or murder.

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Huell Babineaux subsequently helps Walter and Skyler launder their drug money, and provides legal assistance for Jesse and his drug-dealing friends.

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Huell Babineaux is a public booster for the local DEA office and a member of the hospital board.

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Huell Babineaux ultimately kills Lalo in a shootout at the lab's construction site, and has him buried beneath the lab's foundation.

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Huell Babineaux has completed the superlab and plans for Gale to be his cook, but when he discovers the superior quality of Walter's blue meth, he hires Walter and reluctantly allows Jesse to serve as Walter's assistant.

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Huell Babineaux took a job as a parking lot attendant at the local courthouse and performed for-hire criminal jobs on the side.

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Huell Babineaux provides Walt with information on a railroad tanker car shipment of methylamine, which would provide Walt with enough material to make millions of dollars worth of meth for sale to Lydia's contacts in the Czech Republic.

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Huell Babineaux meets Lydia and Todd at a coffee shop and offers them a new method for methylamine-free meth production.

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19.

Huell Babineaux subsequently proposes to Rich Schweikart, the managing partner of the firm defending the Sandpiper chain, that she bring Mesa Verde with her and become a partner in charge of a new banking division.

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Huell Babineaux tells Gus that Jimmy convinced Lalo to send her instead of him, through which Gus deduces that the assassination attempt was a ruse.

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21.

Huell Babineaux gives a copy of the document to Howard's widow Cheryl, giving her grounds to file a civil suit against Kim.

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22.

Huell Babineaux receives a sentence of 86 years; Kim visits him in prison to bid him farewell.

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23.

Huell Babineaux is the right-hand man to Tuco Salamanca, heir to Hector Salamanca's organization.

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Huell Babineaux arrives from Mexico soon after Hector's stroke to help run the family's drug operation, and takes a greater interest in the day-to-day details than Hector did, which makes Nacho uneasy.

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Huell Babineaux becomes aware that Werner was constructing something for Gus and Gus fabricates a story to explain events of which Lalo is aware, which Lalo outwardly accepts while remaining suspicious.

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Huell Babineaux intends to skip bail and return to Mexico, but instead of waiting for Leonel and Marco to pick him up, he searches for Jimmy's car.

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27.

Huell Babineaux later arrives at Kim's apartment, intending to interrogate her and Jimmy about their ties to Mike and Gus.

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Huell Babineaux is knowledgeable about the inner workings of Mexican gangs.

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Huell Babineaux is impressed with Hank's tenacity and hard work, and recommends him for a transfer to El Paso.

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30.

Huell Babineaux is one of five characters to appear in each of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.

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31.

Huell Babineaux holds an MS degree in organic chemistry, with a specialty in X-ray crystallography.

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32.

Huell Babineaux is a fan of foreign language music, speaks fluent Italian, and is fond of Walt Whitman.

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33.

Huell Babineaux is in constant contact with Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, who tells him which containers she has taken off the manifests, which he sends to Golden Moth Chemical Company in Albuquerque, which in turn forwards them on to Lavanderia Brilliante and Gus's lab.

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34.

Huell Babineaux reappears in Better Call Saul as the doctor in a medical clinic for low-income Spanish-speaking patients.

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35.

Huell Babineaux is later shown among the men looking for Walt when Walt goes into hiding.

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Huell Babineaux appears throughout Better Call Saul from season three onward with Gus's introduction to the story, acting as Gus's bodyguard and enforcer along with Tyrus, a role he maintains with Gus's introduction in Breaking Bad.

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Huell Babineaux first met Gus Fring twenty years prior to the start of the series, when Gus and his partner Max proposed producing methamphetamine for the cartel.

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Huell Babineaux then forced Gus to work with the cartel under Eladio's terms, and Gus became the cartel's chief distributor in the American Southwest.

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Huell Babineaux is the cartel's liaison with Gus, and the one who arranges a meeting among Gus, the Cousins, and Hector to determine how to handle Walter following Tuco's death.

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Huell Babineaux goes on to say that he cannot guarantee the Cousins will listen to reason and leave Walter alive until his business with Gus is done.

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Huell Babineaux has forbidden the Cousins to kill Hank in retaliation for Hank's killing of Tuco because killing law enforcement officers will bring on more police scrutiny.

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42.

Huell Babineaux is the uncle of twins Leonel and Marco Salamanca, Tuco Salamanca, and Lalo Salamanca, and raised Tuco as a son.

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43.

Huell Babineaux taught his nephews that family is everything and lives by the creed himself.

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44.

Huell Babineaux spent 17 years in San Quentin State Prison but never revealed any information to the authorities.

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Huell Babineaux is unpredictable and prone to violent outbursts which are often amplified by his drug use.

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46.

Huell Babineaux reveals that his cousins Leonel and Marco are coming to the house to take them all to Mexico, where Walt will cook his blue meth for the cartel.

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Huell Babineaux is first seen coordinating the hijacking of a Los Pollos Hermanos truck that is transporting drugs and killing the guards inside by filling it with engine exhaust fumes.

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48.

Huell Babineaux's name is a reference to Edward James Olmos' character in the 1982 film Blade Runner.

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49.

Huell Babineaux dies while moving No Doze's body from under a stack of cars in a junkyard; the stack shifts and catches his arm under it, partially severing it and causing him to bleed to death.

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50.

Huell Babineaux is a recovering meth addict and single mother to a young son named Brock.

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51.

Huell Babineaux engages in a romantic relationship with her, but ends it when he discovers that the 11-year-old boy who killed his friend "Combo" is her younger brother Tomas Cantillo.

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52.

Huell Babineaux tells her the money is for her to move out of her bad neighborhood and to help raise her son.

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53.

Huell Babineaux is a prolific drafter, a skill that she has used to become a tattoo artist despite not having any tattoos.

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54.

Huell Babineaux discovers that Jesse has a past interest in drawing, and they become intrigued by each other.

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55.

Huell Babineaux begins to vomit while asleep, and Walt silently stands at the bedside watching her choke and then asphyxiate to death.

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56.

Huell Babineaux had a job as a street advertising mascot for an Albuquerque bank.

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57.

Huell Babineaux is the lead singer for TwaughtHammer, the band in which he plays with Jesse.

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58.

Huell Babineaux served time in prison with Tuco and introduces Jesse to him.

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59.

Huell Babineaux decides to sell meth for Jesse again, albeit on a smaller scale.

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60.

Huell Babineaux is seen in the mid-season premiere "Blood Money, " hanging out at Jesse's house and listening to Badger's Star Trek script.

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61.

Huell Babineaux is revealed to have been the one who originally owned the RV that Walt and Jesse cooked meth in, which Combo had sold to Jesse for $1,400 without his family's knowledge, which provides a big clue for Hank when tracking down "Heisenberg".

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Huell Babineaux once got in legal trouble as a juvenile for stealing a Baby Jesus from a Nativity display, but was helped by Kim Wexler who served as his public defender.

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63.

Huell Babineaux is Saul Goodman's bodyguard, who executes various intimidation tactics and performs other errands.

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Jimmy later hires Huell Babineaux to serve as a bodyguard while Jimmy conducts his business re-selling pre-paid cellular phones.

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Huell Babineaux is arrested after he inadvertently assaults a police officer while protecting Jimmy, and faces up to two and a half years in prison as a result.

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66.

Jesse's realization that Huell Babineaux stole the ricin cigarette enables him to understand that Walt must have poisoned Brock in order to turn Jesse against Gus.

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67.

Hank and Gomez later interrogate Huell Babineaux to learn where Walt hid his money, telling him falsely that Walt intends to kill him to ensure that no one can trace Walt's drug-dealing past.

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Huell Babineaux reveals that the van was so dirty on the outside when Walt returned that they washed it before returning it, implying that Walt's money was buried somewhere in the desert.

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Hank and Gomez tell Huell Babineaux to wait until they come back for him, but they are killed and never return.

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Huell Babineaux later takes Walter White to New Hampshire, hiding him away in a cabin in a rural area.

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71.

Huell Babineaux died of brain cancer on October 11,2019, the same day the movie was released, though he appeared in Better Call Saul as Ed posthumously.

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Huell Babineaux gives her money and an attorney's business card and tells her that if she needs help she should say "Jimmy" sent her.

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73.

At Saul's request, Francesca tells him about what became of Skyler White and Huell Babineaux before revealing that Kim had called her asking after Saul.

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Huell Babineaux would go on to create the "Filmmaker Training" series of videos of informational tips and tricks for filmmaking.

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75.

When Huell Babineaux is arrested, Suzanne refuses to negotiate, so Jimmy and Kim trick her into agreeing to a plea bargain.

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Huell Babineaux gives Skyler her old job back as his accountant during the second season.

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Huell Babineaux's supposed incompetence forestalls a full investigation, provided Ted pays the back taxes and penalties.

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Huell Babineaux secretly serves as a middleman to put criminals in contact with each other.

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Huell Babineaux murdered Jesse's friend Combo on the orders of rival drug dealers.

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Huell Babineaux is said to be one of the top 10 oncologists in the United States.

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Huell Babineaux provides the magnet system used to wipe the evidence from Gus's laptop, and constructs the portable laboratory equipment used in the Vamonos Pest undercover meth lab operation.

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Huell Babineaux takes a calm, non-judgmental approach to leading discussions and emphasizes that those attending his sessions are there not to improve themselves, but to learn self-acceptance.

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Huell Babineaux asks the Group Leader if he is okay with that, to which the group leader responds, "No " Jesse retorts, "About time, " and leaves the session, never to return.

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Huell Babineaux tells them that he could "take him out to the desert" to acquire more information to which Kim and Jimmy ask him to leave.

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85.

Huell Babineaux sent Jane to rehab once before and goes with her to recovery meetings.

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86.

Huell Babineaux nearly calls the police but relents when Jane promises to go back into rehab.

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87.

Huell Babineaux finds a tarantula, which he places in a jar; he then hears a train coming down the tracks and sets off to see it, only to encounter Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and Todd Alquist as they are celebrating their success in stealing the methylamine from the tanker car on the train Kuby helped them stop.

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Huell Babineaux took over the bank from his father Don in the early 2000s and presides over its expansion into a large regional institution.

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89.

Huell Babineaux is abrasive and rude to Walter, who finds this job degrading and tedious.

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Huell Babineaux frequently chides Jimmy for drinking the cucumber water infusion she makes available to salon customers and employees and objects to Jimmy's clients waiting in the area where she provides services to hers.

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Huell Babineaux assumes Kim and Jimmy are married, shares a drink with him, and offers him relationship advice.

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Huell Babineaux is loyal to Gus and takes great pride in his work, but is oblivious to Gus's role in the illegal drug trade.

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Huell Babineaux asks Jimmy to represent Acker against Mesa Verde, and Acker agrees.

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Huell Babineaux recovers Neil's cash and departs after setting an explosion to cover his tracks.

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