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Originally Posted by Relentless
They arranged to have 10 of Mike's guys killed in multiple prisons across the country within a 2 minute window. That would require a national syndicate with 100s or 1000s of members (and their families).
I think that's more a function of shallow character development. We know almost nothing about Todd's uncle 'away from work.' For all we know they went out and partied like rockstars... but we are only seeing them at work on screen.
Being less ambiguous would have required 100 more episodes. A whole one on Jr finding out about Walt, another entire episode showing just the shootout and aftermath with nothing else.... the sort of inner dialogue narration that works in books much better than on screen. Breaking bad on TV is like Game of Thrones on TV.... compared to the book it's a hollow shell of itself. I'd love to see a 30,000 page 5-8 book set for breaking bad with much more depth the way Martin has written for GoT... but we just haven't gotten that lucky ;)
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i didn't get the idea that those 10 were necc spread out across the nation. i do know a bit about the aryan nation, that prison gang that the writers are emulating, it's nationwide but has no central authority, calling in an order via that network would not require everyonne in the aryan nation to be on that specific crew's payroll.
but yes, that's my point, the ambiguity of the uncle jack character allows for a variety of scenarios.
in fact, there's very little dev'ed to assume his crew is anything other than a murder for hire squad that just recently, and opportunistically fell into cooking meth:
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Already involved in murder-for-hire, both in and out of prison, the gang recently expanded into methamphetimine production and distribution, following Todd Alquist's work as a meth cook with Walter White.
The gang initially met White when he contracted them to arrange the murder of ten of Gus Fring's former employees in jail within a two-minute window. The murders went smoothly, and following White's retirement from the business, Todd became the primary cook, working with Lydia and Declan. Eventually, Declan fired Todd and the purity of the meth fell dramatically, much to Lydia's chagrin. After she was unable to convince Declan to re-hire Todd, Lydia, formed an alliance with the gang and orchestrated a hit on Declan and his men. The gang stole the remainder of Declan's methlyamine, as well as all of his operation's meth-making equipment, and reinstalled Todd as the primary cook.
Following the gang's expansion into meth production, they were hired by Walter White to murder Jesse Pinkman. After saving Walt from arrest by murdering Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez, Jack and his men steal almost all of Walt's money buried in the desert, and take Jesse prisoner to serve as their slave cook, working alongside Todd.
Members
Jack, gang leader
Kenny, second-in-command
Todd Alquist, the primary cook for the meth operation.
Frankie, white supermacist gang member
Lester, white supermacist gang member
Matt, white supermacist gang member
Partners
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, manager of the distribution of the meth overseas to the Czech Republic
Walter White, contracted ten murders in jail to be committed by the gang, and made a deal for them to murder Jesse.
Jesse Pinkman, slave cook, taken prisoner to help Todd improve the purity of the gang's meth cooking.
Gang's Victims
Gus's ten former employees (Murdered within a two minute window across multiple prisons, orchestrated by Walt with help of Todd's uncle Jack and the Aryan Brotherhood):
Dan Wachsberger
Ron Forenall
Dennis Markowski
Jack McGann
Andrew Holt
Anthony Perez
Isaac Conley
William Moniz
Harris Boivin
Raymond Martinez
Declan's nine employees (Murdered by the Aryan Brotherhood on the orders of Lydia)
Declan (Shot in the head by Jack)
Steven Gomez (Murdered by the Aryan Brotherhood)
Hank Schrader (Shot in the head by Jack)
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i understand being less ambigous would require more shows. my point is the show embraces that ambiguity and uses it as a cinematic tool.