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| “ | Him? You think the... Chicken Man? What a joke. Alvarez has been paying me for years. Years, but you know what? I would've done it for free because I hate every last one of you psycho. Sacks. Of shit. I opened Lalo's gate. And I would do it again, and I'm glad what they did to him. He's a soulless pig. And I wish I killed him with my own hands, and you know what else, Hector? I put you in that chair. Oh yeah, your heart meds? I switched them for sugar pills. You were dead and buried, and I had to watch this asshole bring you back. So when you are sitting in your shitty nursing home, and you're sucking down on your Jell-O night after night for the rest of your life, you think of me! You twisted FUCK! | „ |
| ~ Nacho's famous last words to Hector before attacking Bolsa and taking his own life. |
Ignacio "Nacho" Varga is the tritagonist in the crime drama series Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad.
He is a calculating, intelligent career criminal and the right hand man to Tuco Salamanca, heir to the crime family of the same name. While not yet a kingpin himself, Nacho is bright and has the ear of his terrifying boss. Nacho hires Jimmy McGill as his lawyer after being introduced to him by Tuco at the start of Season 1. He secretly begins working with Mike Ehrmantraut at the beginning of Season 2. He admires Mike's calm and calculated way of business, compared to Tuco's impulsive and insane way of working.
He was portrayed by Michael Mando.
Biography[]
Background[]
Nacho is a calculating, intelligent career criminal. He is the right hand man to Tuco Salamanca, heir to the crime family of the same name. While not yet a kingpin himself, Nacho is bright and has the ear of his terrifying boss. Nacho hires Jimmy as his lawyer after being introduced to him by Tuco at the start of Season 1. He secretly begins working with Mike Ehrmantraut at the end of season 1. He admires Mike's calm and calculated way of working, compared to Tuco's impulsive and insane way of working. Nacho.
Season 1[]
When Tuco captures Jimmy and the twins Cal and Lars, he asks Nacho, Gonzo and No-Doze to take them into the desert, where they try to find out who they are. Despite Tuco not trusting Jimmy to be a lawyer, Nacho believes him and convinces Tuco to let him go unharmed, saying that the death of a lawyer does not benefit them.
Sometime after the desert confrontation, Nacho meets with Jimmy in his small office, offering a part of the profits for cooperation to find the millions of dollars stolen by Betsy and Craig Kettleman. Despite Jimmy declining, asserting himself as a lawyer, not a criminal, Nacho gives him his phone number.
Now aware of Nacho's plans, Jimmy tries to make an anonymous call to warn the Kettlemans that they are in danger. Concerned, the Kettlemans look outside their house and sees Nacho's parked van. The next day, the Kettlemans are nowhere to be found while their house is left ransacked. Nacho is arrested after being denounced by a neighbor who saw his van parked outside the Kettleman's house. The police search his van, finding blood on the floor (belonging to Lars and Cal).
The police finds Jimmy, who had been trying to communicate with Nacho, and escorts him to the station, where he discusses the case with Nacho. Nacho maintains his innocence, admitting that he had performed surveillance on the Kettleman home, but did not kidnap them. Nacho warns Jimmy that if he does not get the charges dropped against him the police might uncover his connections to Tuco's criminal organization, which would result in Jimmy's death. Terrified, Jimmy goes to try to fix the issue.
After Jimmy found the Kettlemans, Nacho is released from police custody, who then discreetly accuses Jimmy of warning the Kettlemans before they went into hiding and that Jimmy will face "consequences". Jimmy rebuts by implying that he warned the family for the children's sake, and that any trouble Nacho got into he brought upon himself.
Nacho buys pills from Pryce, with Mike Ehrmantraut serving as his bodyguard during the drug deal. When Pryce counts Nacho's money, he points out that he is short $20 from the price of the pills. Mike demands the agreed amount or the deal is off. Reluctant at first, Nacho coldly forks over the rest of the money and leaves with the pills.
Season 2[]
Nacho meets with Pryce to buy more pills from him, but this time, Mike is not present as Pryce's bodyguard, due to the both of them parting ways. While Pryce counts up Nacho's money, Nacho admires his new bright yellow Hummer H2 with red flames and uses Mike's absence to his advantage and steals Pryce's personal information from his auto registration, learning that Pryce's real name is Daniel Warmolt. When Daniel's house is later broken into, his baseball card collection and drug money are stolen by Nacho.
Upon learning of Daniel's stolen property and that he is questioned by the police, Mike confronts Nacho at his workplace: an upholstery shop run by Nacho's father, where he pretends to be interested in reupholstering his car in order to get Nacho’s attention. When they’re alone, Mike informs him that he knows Nacho was behind the break-in at Daniel's house. Nacho shrugs it off, but Mike has an ace up his sleeve: he threatens to reveal Nacho’s dealings with Daniel to Tuco. At their regular drug deal spot, Nacho gives Mike $10,000 and returns Daniel his baseball cards, but ends up taking his Hummer to his chop shop to be disassembled. He then declares that his business with Daniel is finished.
When Mike requests more work from his crooked veterinarian, Caldera, he is given a job by a man who requested for Mike specifically. This is revealed to be Nacho, who meets with Mike at a desolate meeting spot and says, "There's a guy. And I need him to go away."
Mike and Nacho meet across the street from a restaurant where Tuco and Nacho regularly collect the money owed from dealers. Nacho reveals a scar on his left shoulder and tells a story of when Tuco and him had a job together. Tuco shot one of their suppliers, who Nacho was behind, lodging a piece of his skull into Nacho's shoulder. If Tuco were to find out that Nacho was working independently, he may have the same fate.
When Nacho meets Mike the next day, Mike says he won't kill Tuco but instead they should land him in prison. Cut to the restaurant, Tuco and Nacho count money given to them by the dealer they're meeting with. After the dealer leaves, Mike, from across the street, calls the police, alerting them of a fight in the restaurant. From inside, Tuco and Nacho see Mike bump into Tuco's car, and Tuco angrily confronts him. As Mike and Tuco's fight escalates, a police siren is heard, prompting Nacho to take the money they collected and leave in his van. Nacho later meets a beaten and bruised Mike and gives him the money he earned. He then asks Mike why he went through so much for less money just to avoid killing Tuco, but receives no answer as Mike drives away, leaving him alone.
Mike arrives at a closed diner where Hector Salamanca, the Cousins, Arturo, and Nacho are at. Nacho pats down Mike before letting him in, sitting behind Mike as he talks with Hector about a deal to get Tuco less jail time. Nacho then shows up at Mike's house later that night to deliver the money decided upon on the deal. Mike splits the pay with Nacho to make up for their failure on the job to take out Tuco.
Nacho calls Mike to a meeting, confronting him about an attack on a driver, Ximenez Lecerda, for the cartel with a quarter million stolen, that he figured had to have been done by Mike. Nacho is in charge of seeing what Ximenez knows, and Nacho is worried that if he knows anything about Mike, it'll be bad for not just Mike, but Nacho himself as well. He eventually realized that Mike was trying to draw police attention to Hector's operation, after Mike asks why it wasn't in the paper, and Nacho takes extreme offense to it. Nacho reveals that Hector killed a passing civilian that drove by the scene and freed the driver. He then leaves an unsettled Mike alone, and drives off.
Nacho and Arturo drive the van to a desolate location, with Ximenez in the back. Unknown to them, Mike is following closely behind. Nacho is later seen at the same desolate locations, following closely to Hector, as Arturo and the Cousins gets ready to execute Ximenez. Nacho blocks the line of sight of Mike, who is waiting far away with a sniper rifle.
Season 3[]
The following day, Hector flanked by Nacho and Arturo walks into Gus' restaurant and behaves menacingly towards the customers and staff, helping himself to some soda and lighting a cigar.
At El Michoacáno, Nacho is collecting drug money as Hectorreads a newspaper nearby. Krazy-8 arrives to deliver his returns, but Nacho finds that he has come up short. He initially allows Krazy-8 to leave, but at Hector's prodding, drags Krazy-8 to the back of the restaurant and beats him. That night, while working at his father's upholstery shop, Nacho feels pangs of guilt and injures himself at a sewing machine.
At the Los Pollos Hermanos chicken farm, a truck arrives to drop off restaurant supplies, after which Victor and Tyrus retrieve several pouches of drugs from a false bottom in the trailer. Nacho and Arturo are there to collect some of the pouches, but Nacho moves to collect six instead of five, causing Victor to pull a gun on him. When Nacho explains that Hector is expecting for him to collect six, Tyrus calls Gus by cell phone, who gives his approval.
Meanwhile, Daniel Wormald arrives home to find Nacho sitting in his living room. Nacho asks Daniel to get empty capsules for the specific kind of pills Hector needs for his heart problems, offering $20,000. Daniel reluctantly agrees, saying he can order samples with an R&D request.
At their meeting, Nacho is surprised to find Mike accompanying Daniel. Mike insists on knowing Nacho's plan before giving him the pills, asking how Nacho intends to switch Hector's pills without leaving evidence. Nacho explains that Hector wants to use his father's business to front drugs, which can put his father in danger. After examining Nacho's gas cap, Mike tells him that other people are watching Hector and to make sure he switches the pills back if he goes through with his plan. Mike agrees to Nacho and Daniel's exchange once Nacho shows him the money and gives him "one more thing," which Mike pulls out a pad and pen in anticipation of.
That night, Nacho goes into his father's upholstery shop and crushes ibuprofin tablets into a fine powder, which he carefully plants in the empty capsules that Daniel supplied him. He then practices slipping the pills into Hector's coat pocket. By the time morning comes, Nacho seems to have it down perfectly. When his father shows up, Nacho claims he came to work early to check on invoices.
That night, Nacho climbs onto the roof of the restaurant where Hector does his transactions, and breaks the air cooling unit; the restaurant is hot and sweaty the next day. As Nacho counts Krazy-8's money, he sees Hector take off his coat. Nacho pretends to scrutinize one of the dollar bills in Krazy-8's stack, claiming that it looks "funny" (ie; it looks like it might be marked). Hector asks him to come over so he can scrutinize it. While Hector looks at the bill, Nacho reaches into Hector's coat pocket and removes his pill bottle, which he "accidentally" proceeds to drop. In gathering up the money, Nacho then returns to his seat and grabs the bottle of doctored pills from the satchel containing Hector's rolled-up money bands. He keeps the bottle on his lap while counting the next dealer's money, and is unusually short with him. Once this dealer is gone, Nacho does the switch, switching Hector's real pills for the doctored ones, and then tosses the bottle back into Hector's coat pocket without Hector noticing.
Hector and Gus meet at a remote location, flanked by their respective henchmen. Over a speaker phone, Hector communicates with Juan Bolsa, who tells him that Don Eladio is satisfied with the new "consolidated transportation method" of shipping drugs over the border, and wants the practice to continue using Gus's distribution network exclusively. Hector's heart problems act up, leading him to open the vial containing Nacho's spiked pills. However, the pills have no apparent effect, and Hector curses Eladio, Bolsa, and Gus before leaving.
Nacho, seeing that the pills have failed to kill Hector, goes to his father Manuel's house and comes clean to him. He admits that he fell in "again" with Hector, who will soon be coming to take control of Manuel's upholstery shop. Nacho pleads with his father to do what Hector wants and not do anything "stupid," meaning approaching the police. Manuel refuses and tells Nacho to get out of the house, which he obliges.
Hector, with Nacho and Arturo in tow, arrives at Manuel's upholstery shop. Nacho gives Hector a tour of the property and explains how it will be used for Hector's drug business. Hector approaches Manuel and offers him several hundred dollars, but Manuel tells him to get out of the shop. Nacho tells his father to think about their loved ones, persuading him to take the money. Outside, Nacho tries to tell Hector that his father will eventually come around, but Hector replies that he doesn't trust him.
Nacho sits in his van outside the upholstery shop, with a gun on the passenger seat. When Hector pulls up in his car, Nacho takes the gun and attempts an ambush. However, Arturo and Carlos unexpectedly arrive and prevent Nacho from proceeding. The four watch as Gus and Juan Bolsa arrive to confront them. Bolsa reiterates Don Eladio's position that Gus will take over drug distribution for the Cartel. Hector becomes increasingly enraged, and opens the vial with Nacho's spiked pills. This time, the pills work and Hector almost dies from a heart attack. Gus urges Bolsa to leave the scene as he performs CPR on Hector, saving his life. After Hector is loaded into an ambulance, Gus suspiciously eyes Nacho.
Season 4[]
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Season 5[]
Lalo is still interrogating Nacho and Domingo about Werner Ziegler and another individual named Michael who works for Gus at El Michoacano. Nacho claims he has no idea what he's talking about while pretending to be ignorant. Then Nacho and Domingo tell Lalo about a report that a rival drug gang has been "stepping on" the Salamanca family's enterprise. Lalo makes the decision to look into it and asks Nacho to show him the area. They travel to a location in Salamanca where bags of cocaine from Gus's chicken farm are stored in preparation for distribution. Lalo looks through each packet and finds that some of them are not cartel products, despite Nacho's insistence that there is nothing wrong. On Gus' orders, Nacho really mixed the cartel product with a subpar one in an effort to halt Lalo's probe. Sadly, that strategy ultimately fails because Lalo refuses to fall for it.
Jo is snoozing next to Nacho in bed at home. Before he can retrieve his gun or run away, a group of men led by Tyrus and Victor break into his home, pin him down, and take him away in a car. They take him to the eatery where his dad is. Nacho is being held down by the car and is forced to watch helplessly as Victor ignores his protests that he has completed all that has been requested of him, picks up a revolver, and walks over to the restaurant.
When Gus gets into the car and indicates that Lalo Salamanca is an issue, Nacho replies that he is only aware of the three things that have been brought up during his interrogation: a covert construction project, Werner Ziegler, and Mike. Nacho reluctantly agrees that he'll gain Lalo's trust so he can disrupt the operation from within, but he also warns Gus to leave his father alone since he has nothing to do with this. Gus tells Nacho that he will need to find a method to gain Lalo's trust in order to sabotage the operation from within. Tyrus signals for Victor to exit the restaurant as they take Nacho back to his house, and Gus shoots Nacho a chilly glance before getting out of the car.
The following evening, Lalo and his crew are playing poker while hanging around. Lalo asks a terrified Nacho to stop talking when he tries to strike up a conversation. When Lalo raises with the worst possible hand—7+2 off-suit—and bluffs, Domingo has a triple 8 thanks to his pair of 8s and the 8 on the table. He would have won, but he gives up to avoid offending Lalo. After revealing his poor hand, Lalo examines his cards and tells him he's crazy for folding. He then nicknames him "Ocho Loco," which is Spanish for "Krazy-8," giving rise to his eventual criminal moniker. When one of the fifth street vendors calls Domingo to report a problem, Nacho tells him to get out and fix it.
Domingo, however, is apprehended by the police while attempting to remove ten cocaine packages trapped in a gutter. Police suit up to raid the stash home while Lalo, Mouse, Arlo, and Nacho observe the crime scene from a safe distance inside a car. Lalo queries whether any of the merchandise might have been saved before the police arrived, but Mouse replies that it is still in the house. Nacho resolves to take matters into his own hands by scaling the roofs of two nearby buildings, then leaping onto the building where the gang keeps their merchandise stored, remembering Gus' advice to win Lalo's trust.
The others watch anxiously as a SWAT unit forms up outside the door and gets ready to break it down (Lalo is even munching on something). Nacho enters the facility through the roof, retrieves many bags of merchandise, and then leaps out of a window as the cops barge into the structure. He unexpectedly enters the passenger door of the automobile, shocking the gang members, and Lalo calls him a "badass" for his actions. Lalo questions Nacho about "Krazy-8" and whether he has ever been incarcerated when they are back at El Michoacano.
Nacho responds that he and Domingo have been close family friends for a long time and that he will remain quiet about Domingo's incarceration. Nacho asks Lalo if he wants him to take care of it as Lalo continues to stare at him, but Lalo responds that he has something much better in mind for Domingo. Later on that day, Nacho and Blingy park their car next to Jimmy McGill, who is now using the identity Saul Goodman, on a street. Nacho meets Saul, who he hasn't seen in more than two years, and tells him to get in the rear of the car. Saul climbs into the car grudgingly, and they start to move.
Lalo is working on his muscle vehicle at a warehouse when Nacho and Blingy take Saul there. When it turns out that the dead drops are from Gus' operation, Lalo and Nacho tell Saul that they need Domingo to tell the police about them in confidence so they may take strong aim at Gus. After succeeding, Saul informs Nacho and Lalo that not only did Domingo divulge the information to Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez of the DEA, but that he also turned into their personal informant, providing Lalo with a "direct hotline to the DEA" in case he needs it again.
Nacho says it doesn't matter when Saul asks about the person they just set up after Lalo has left. Nacho tells Gus about Domingo turning informant later on in the evening. Since the lawyer has them, he refuses to reveal the names of the questioning personnel. Tyrus is about to phone to shut off the dead drops when Gus and Nacho stop him, with Nacho making the argument that if the DEA doesn't find the money at the death drops, Lalo will know someone talked. Later, Gus, Mike, and Victor meet up with Nacho in a deserted train station. He is taken aback to discover Mike working for Gus and worries that he has inadvertently "switched sides," but Mike reassures him that no one from the Salamancas will ever know. Gus is informed by Nacho that Lalo won't stop "chipping away" at his business until he loses Don Eladio's confidence and that Domingo is still speaking with the DEA. Gus instructs Victor to elevate low-level dealers who lack operational knowledge so that the arrests won't present a problem. He then informs Nacho that going forward, he will only report to Mike.
Nacho requests a word from Mike before they go. Mike says that he had already warned him about this back when he was going to take down Hector, meaning that whatever occurred is Nacho's own fault. Nacho tells him what Gus's gang did to him after killing Arturo. Mike offers to assist Nacho when he says that Gus has threatened to kill his father, but he insists that they must first get rid of Lalo. When Mike, posing as a private detective, prompts a witness's memory about a car she saw on the day of the incident—the same car that Lalo drives—shortly after their encounter, Lalo is accused of killing TravelWire clerk Fred Whalen and is put in jail. When Lalo gets a phone in his cell, he phones Nacho and tells him to set a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant on fire. Now that Lalo has been dealt with, Nacho sets up another meeting with Mike and demands that he honor his promise to remove him and his father from the game.
Instead of responding, Mike asks Nacho to provide him with the details he's holding back. Lalo's ambitions are revealed to Mike, who observes that Lalo is still "in the picture" and then departs. In order to make it appear as though Nacho was acting on Lalo's orders, Nacho and Gus later vandalize and blow up an unoccupied Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant in Los Lunas.
Lalo is picked up by Nacho after being released on bail from jail. The following day, Lalo requests that Nacho drop him out close to the Mexican border so that he can depart the nation. Tyrus is informed of this and asks if Lalo is "done," but Tyrus simply instructs Nacho to remain in place. Nacho drops Lalo down in the desert, notably close to the well where the transfer of the bail money took place, after taking Lalo to Casa Tranquila to bid Hector farewell. Lalo tells Nacho to leave when Nacho asks whether he should wait with him.
He commends Nacho for setting the Pollos restaurant on fire, which he had read about in the papers, and he vows that the two of them would "do more" in the future. Lalo taps on the car door window and requests that Nacho take him back up the road as an obviously relieved Nacho begins to drive away. He replies that he's puzzled why they haven't found Jimmy's car, even though Jimmy had told him that it had broken down somewhere on the route, when Nacho asks him what they're looking for. Lalo asks Nacho to drive him to Kim Wexler's place after finding the car in a ditch. He instructs Nacho to return to Mexico, but to a different location than before, after interviewing Jimmy and Kim.
Lalo prepares Nacho to see Don Eladio for a promotion to overseeing the cartel's activities in the US while Nacho flies with Lalo to his home in Mexico. Hitmen hired by Gus call Nacho at three in the morning to ask him to open the rear gate for them and then go. Nacho worries about the innocent bystanders who will be hit by bullets, but the hitmen simply ignore him. Don Eladio, upon knowing that Nacho is a buddy of Tuco, jokingly doubts Nacho's sanity when Nacho is brought before him. Nacho discusses his strategy for expanding the cartel's range by going after biker gangs and explains that he wants to be his own boss and not constantly be on guard. Don Eladio approves of Nacho's ambitions while pointing out that Nacho is in the incorrect line of work for that.
As three o'clock comes that evening, Nacho tries to leave without being seen, but Lalo is outside drinking. Nacho accepts Lalo's invitation to join him, and after a brief discussion, Lalo agrees to let Nacho get better booze for the group. Nacho places a pan of oil on the stove in the kitchen to create smoke and entice Lalo inside. Nacho is able to jimmy the latch on the back gate, let the hitmen in, and guide them to the kitchen while he makes his own getaway after Lalo leaves to deal with the smoke.
Lalo manages to defeat the hit men, though, and instructs the final one to tell Gus that the mission was a success. Nacho had tried to avoid the attempted assassination that killed everyone in Lalo's complex, but Lalo notices his untouched drink and appears to believe correctly that he was involved. Nacho didn't find out about Lalo's survival for the rest of his life and thought the hitmen had killed him.
Season 6[]
After running away from Lalo's property for about two hours straight and going north, Nacho got a call from one of Gus' goons telling him to hide because he was in Salamanca territory until a safe place was provided for him. The cartel discovers that Nacho was a rat when Lalo fakes his death and sets a bounty on his head. When Nacho checks into a far-off motel, he is given a room where he finds an envelope with a Browning Hi-Power gun, extra magazines, and money from Mexico. Nacho had been hiding behind a sizable drain pipe to evade a Federal convoy. Additionally, he discovers a phone, uses it to contact Gus's contact, who advises him to wait until he is picked up by men in a passing farm truck. Mike doesn't pick up when Nacho then tries to call him.
Nacho hears footsteps outside his door the next morning. He hides for protection and points his rifle at the door out of paranoia. Nacho answers the door to discover a tidy dish of food outside after a fast knock and the footsteps leaving. Nacho takes the tray and enters the hotel room again. Nacho notices a shed next to the motel from the window and grows uneasy about it. In particular, he notices a boarded-up window with a tiny peephole that offers a clear view of his room.
Nacho leaves his room by kicking out the air conditioner in the back window since he feels uneasy about the shed outside. He circles the motel and enters the shed, where he discovers a man clearly watching Nacho through the peephole. The man replies that he doesn't know and that he was just employed when Nacho inquires about his employer. Inquiring about leaving the motel, Nacho phones Tyrus but hangs up right away. The man receives a call on his phone a short while later, verifying that he was employed by Gus and Tyrus. As payback, Nacho knocks the man out.
Leonel and Marco Salamanca show up at the motel when Juan Bolsa discovers where Nacho is hiding out. When Leonel and Marco Salamanca's men discover Nacho hiding in a vehicle, a gunfight results. Due to their need for Nacho, Leonel and Marco Salamanca intervene and tell their men not to kill him. Leonel and Marco Salamanca nearly got run over by Nacho as he hotwired the truck and narrowly escaped the motel.
Nacho gets out of the vehicle as it breaks down farther down the road and runs into a nearby field. He enters a broken-down oil tanker truck and peers through a peephole. Nacho holds his breath and dives into a pool of oil as Marco approaches the truck and peeks inside. Nacho follows him out and waits until nightfall to leave before locating a mechanic shop and obtaining the hose. When the shop owner confronts him, he is given a rag to clean with. Nacho takes the mechanic's phone to call Manuel after cleaning up. He greets him and explains that before saying goodbye, he simply needed to hear his voice. He then makes a call to Mike and tells him to tell Gus that he will cooperate with whatever story as long as his father is kept safe. Gus concurs.
Later, at an unidentified location, Mike rescues Nacho from his hiding place inside a box truck. He feeds Nacho before Gus walks into the room. Gus explains the strategy to Nacho, asking him to inform Juan Bolsa and the Salamanca family that he was employed by a different cartel with headquarters in Peru to set Lalo up and has been on their payroll for more than a year. Nacho will escape his restraints after making his confession and attack Victor, who will "put him down."
Additionally, it is stated that Nacho is "too pretty" and needs to be physically assaulted in order for the situation to appear credible. Before doing this, Mike pours himself and Nacho each a drink. Nacho is transported to Hector's desert hideout the following day after being loaded into the back of a van. Tyrus ties Nacho's hands with zip ties before he gets there, and Mike bids Nacho a quick farewell before heading off to set up his sniper position on the hill. As they arrive at the meeting place, Leonel and Marco Salamanca, Hector, and Bolsa are already there.
Gus and his guys exit the van, and Nacho is thrown out. Nacho is approached by Juan, who informs him that he will pass away, but the manner of his passing will depend on whether he confesses. After first objecting, Nacho agrees to the idea, informing Bolsa that he had set up Lalo for a Peruvian cartel and denying any involvement on the part of Gus. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he joyously confesses to Hector face that he was the one who put him in a wheelchair and switched his heart medication, angering him by triggering Hector's stroke.
Before escaping his bonds and robbing Bolsa of his gun, Nacho calls Hector and his family insane. Nacho puts the gun to Bolsa's head for a second, then turns it on himself and fires, killing himself instead of having Victor murder Bolsa as was intended. Nacho falls to the ground and becomes lifeless. Gus and his men take a minute to contemplate everything before getting ready to depart. In the meantime, Leonel and Marco Salamanca transport Hector to Nacho's body and present him with a gun. Hector fires the gun into his corpse in a fit of wrath. Mike departs the scene after being moved by seeing Nacho make his final stand. The place where Nacho died has a blue bloom growing there now.
Jimmy is kidnapped by Lalo, who then reveals Nacho's involvement in Gus' attempted murder, initially confusing Jimmy by referring to Nacho as Ignacio. Lalo makes the implication that he believes Jimmy was also complicit in Nacho's conduct by pointing out that Nacho had introduced him to Jimmy. Jimmy protests that he had nothing to do with Nacho's involvement in the attempted murder and that, whatever Nacho did, he did it on his own as Lalo gags him. Even though Mike subsequently assures Jimmy that Lalo won't be coming, Jimmy is terrified by Lalo's promise to return later to hear the entire tale.
Hector, who had assumed Lalo had just vanished before Lalo's death in the fight with Gus, tells Eladio what he had discovered regarding Lalo's survival and how Nacho had actually been working for Gus. Eladio ultimately rejects him, though. Later, as Manuel is working at his upholstery business, Mike calls and requests a face-to-face conversation with Manuel regarding his kid. Manuel recognizes Mike outside and inquires about Nacho. Mike promises Manuel that it was finished quickly and painlessly before telling him that Nacho won't be discovered. Mike admits that he was present and notes that while Nacho had made mistakes and associated with undesirable characters, he was never truly like them because of his decent character.
Mike assures Manuel that the Salamancas' day is coming and that justice will be served, so he won't need to worry about them any longer. The news of his son's passing upsets Manuel, who tells Mike that what Mike is referring to is not justice but retribution, which never ends and is irrelevant now that his kid is dead. Before going back inside, Manuel yells angrily in Spanish, "You thugs and your "justice." You're all the same.
Trivia[]
- Nacho is referenced in Breaking Bad's season 2 episode titled "Better Call Saul", when Jesse Pinkman and Walter White hold Saul at gunpoint and Saul mentions both Nacho as Ignacio and Lalo Salamanca as well.
- Nacho never meets Kim Wexler, Howard Hamlin, or Chuck McGill.
External Links[]
- Nacho Varga on the Villains Wiki.
- Nacho Varga on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki.
- Nacho Varga on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.
- Nacho Varga on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki.
- Nacho Varga on the Breaking Bad Wiki.
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