93 Facts About Skinny Pete

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

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

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Skinny Pete tries to take Holly with her, but Hank commands her to return the baby.

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

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Skinny Pete is reluctant to be associated with violence or murder.

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12.

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

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Skinny Pete is a public booster for the local DEA office and a member of the hospital board.

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14.

Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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18.

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

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19.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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23.

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

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Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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28.

Skinny Pete is knowledgeable about the inner workings of Mexican gangs.

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

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30.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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32.

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

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33.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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35.

Skinny Pete is later shown among the men looking for Walt when Walt goes into hiding.

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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete taught his nephews that family is everything and lives by the creed himself.

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44.

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

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45.

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

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46.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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49.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete is a recovering meth addict and single mother to a young son named Brock.

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51.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete 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.

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

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55.

Skinny Pete 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.

Skinny Pete had a job as a street advertising mascot for an Albuquerque bank.

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57.

Badger and Skinny Pete begin to find the meetings helpful and continue to attend regularly.

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58.

Skinny Pete is the lead singer for TwaughtHammer, the band in which he plays with Jesse.

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59.

Badger and Skinny Pete appear in El Camino, helping Jesse hide for the night after he flees Jack's compound in Todd's El Camino and distracting police to give Jesse time to get away.

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Skinny Pete served time in prison with Tuco and introduces Jesse to him.

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61.

When Skinny Pete is mugged by two addicts, Jesse is forced to get the money and product back.

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62.

Skinny Pete decides to sell meth for Jesse again, albeit on a smaller scale.

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63.

Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete is seen briefly in the series finale, when Walt compels Gretchen and Elliot to use his remaining money to establish a trust for Walter Jr.

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65.

Badger and Skinny Pete give Jesse the money Walt paid them for their role in coercing Gretchen and Elliot.

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66.

Skinny Pete stays with the El Camino and waits for police to respond to its Lojack so he can claim he obtained it by trading his Thunderbird to Jesse.

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67.

Skinny Pete is last seen moving the El Camino to his driveway so it will be visible from the street when the police arrive.

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

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71.

Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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.

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

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Skinny Pete gives Skyler her old job back as his accountant during the second season.

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

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Skinny Pete secretly serves as a middleman to put criminals in contact with each other.

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Skinny Pete murdered Jesse's friend Combo on the orders of rival drug dealers.

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Skinny Pete is said to be one of the top 10 oncologists in the United States.

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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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81.

Skinny Pete 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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82.

Skinny Pete 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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83.

Skinny Pete sent Jane to rehab once before and goes with her to recovery meetings.

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Skinny Pete nearly calls the police but relents when Jane promises to go back into rehab.

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85.

Unknown to the Schwartzes, the snipers are actually Badger and Skinny Pete, who are using laser pointers to simulate rifle sights.

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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete is abrasive and rude to Walter, who finds this job degrading and tedious.

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89.

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

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Skinny Pete 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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Skinny Pete asks Jimmy to represent Acker against Mesa Verde, and Acker agrees.

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93.

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

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