91 Facts About Marco Pasternak

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

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

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Marco Pasternak tries to take Holly with her, but Hank commands her to return the baby.

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9.

Marco Pasternak 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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10.

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

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11.

Marco Pasternak is reluctant to be associated with violence or murder.

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12.

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

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Marco Pasternak is a public booster for the local DEA office and a member of the hospital board.

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Marco Pasternak 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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Marco Pasternak 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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16.

Marco Pasternak 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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17.

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

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19.

Marco Pasternak 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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20.

Marco Pasternak 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.

Marco Pasternak 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.

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

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23.

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

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24.

Marco Pasternak 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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25.

Marco Pasternak 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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26.

Marco Pasternak 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.

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

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28.

Marco Pasternak is knowledgeable about the inner workings of Mexican gangs.

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29.

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

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30.

Marco Pasternak 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.

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

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32.

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

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33.

Marco Pasternak 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.

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

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35.

Marco Pasternak is later shown among the men looking for Walt when Walt goes into hiding.

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36.

Marco Pasternak 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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37.

Marco Pasternak 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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38.

Marco Pasternak 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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39.

Marco Pasternak 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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Marco Pasternak 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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41.

Marco Pasternak 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.

Marco Pasternak 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.

Marco Pasternak taught his nephews that family is everything and lives by the creed himself.

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44.

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

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45.

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

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46.

Marco Pasternak 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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47.

Leonel and Marco Pasternak Salamanca, referred to as "The Cousins" or "The Twins", are twin brothers and prolific hitmen for Don Eladio's drug cartel.

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48.

Hector once tested them when he stopped a boyhood fight by nearly drowning Marco Pasternak, which forced Leonel to hit Hector to make him release his grip.

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49.

Leonel and Marco Pasternak move to kill Hank, but Gus anonymously warns Hank just before the confrontation.

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50.

Marco Pasternak opens fire on Hank, who escapes out the passenger side door and crawls away.

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51.

Marco Pasternak 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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52.

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

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53.

Marco Pasternak 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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54.

Marco Pasternak is a recovering meth addict and single mother to a young son named Brock.

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55.

Marco Pasternak 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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56.

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

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57.

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

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58.

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

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59.

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

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60.

Marco Pasternak had a job as a street advertising mascot for an Albuquerque bank.

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61.

Marco Pasternak is the lead singer for TwaughtHammer, the band in which he plays with Jesse.

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62.

Marco Pasternak served time in prison with Tuco and introduces Jesse to him.

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63.

Marco Pasternak decides to sell meth for Jesse again, albeit on a smaller scale.

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64.

Marco Pasternak 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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65.

Marco Pasternak 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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66.

Marco Pasternak 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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Marco Pasternak is a scam artist and one of Jimmy McGill's lifelong friends.

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68.

Marco Pasternak begs Jimmy to pull one more scam before he goes, and Jimmy agrees.

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69.

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

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70.

Marco Pasternak 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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Marco Pasternak 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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72.

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

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73.

Marco Pasternak gives Skyler her old job back as his accountant during the second season.

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74.

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

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75.

Marco Pasternak secretly serves as a middleman to put criminals in contact with each other.

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76.

Marco Pasternak murdered Jesse's friend Combo on the orders of rival drug dealers.

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Marco Pasternak is said to be one of the top 10 oncologists in the United States.

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Marco Pasternak 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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Marco Pasternak 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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80.

Marco Pasternak 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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81.

Marco Pasternak 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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82.

Marco Pasternak sent Jane to rehab once before and goes with her to recovery meetings.

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83.

Marco Pasternak nearly calls the police but relents when Jane promises to go back into rehab.

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84.

Marco Pasternak 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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85.

Marco Pasternak 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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86.

Marco Pasternak is abrasive and rude to Walter, who finds this job degrading and tedious.

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87.

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

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89.

Marco Pasternak 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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90.

Marco Pasternak asks Jimmy to represent Acker against Mesa Verde, and Acker agrees.

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91.

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

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