In 2003, Hector would end up paralyzed and unable to speak following a stroke caused by empty pills as part of a plan orchestrated by his former subordinate Nacho Varga.
Meanwhile, Kim recovers at home from her wounds from the car crash, and Hector collapses from a stroke caused by Nacho. The episode was seen by an estimated 1.85 million household viewers upon release, the most watched episode of the third season.
Hector's Disability Came From Gus Fring's Act Of Revenge
He emptied the pill capsules and refilled them with ibuprofen, which could increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke. The spiked pills finally worked during a drug cartel meeting. Hector suffered a stroke but Gus saved him by using CPR.
Hector is a former drug agent who worked for Don Eladio. His family members are very involved in the drug business. After an unexplained incident, he's left paralyzed in most of his body and can't speak or move on his own. His only means of communication is the bell on his wheelchair.
Nacho realizes Hector suffers from angina and decides to try to kill him by replacing his nitroglycerin with ibuprofen in the hopes of inducing a fatal heart attack.
It was a stroke. This was revealed in the 2nd season when he and Jesse are reunited after Hank shot Tuco. Hank and Steven Gomez try to get him to place Jesse at the scene. I kinda wish it were a more hardcore story but thats all we know.
After Nacho's good-hearted father (Juan Carlos Cantú) was dragged into the Salamanca operation, Nacho knew that he had to take Hector down if he wanted to keep his dad alive. So, he set in motion a plan to swap Hector's heart medication with a placebo so he'd have a heart attack.
Not looking at Gus is a sign of disrespect. Hector hates Gus but doesn't have a lot of ways of showing it. He's been reduced to a little man in a wheelchair while Gus just keeps growing in power and influence.
Hector believes that family is everything. When the cousins were very young, they got into an argument over a toy and one wished that the other one was dead. Hector says “Oh yeah?” He then sticks the boy's head under water and holds it down as if to grant his wish.
With Tuco distracted, Jesse overpowers him and wounds him with his pistol. When they see a vehicle approaching in the distance, Walt and Jesse quickly crawl into hiding. Hank arrives at the hideout and gets into a shootout with the wounded Tuco, whom he kills in self-defense.
He is identified by the DEA as Hector Salamanca of the Cartel, but they think he hasn't been a major player in the business for years. As such, he is paralyzed and unable to speak as a result of a stroke (portrayed in Better Call Saul), and uses a brass service bell taped onto his wheelchair armrest to communicate.
Trivia. In an online 2013 article by Bustle, Todd Alquist was ranked as being the third most evil character on Breaking Bad, being surpassed only by Tuco Salamanca and his uncle Jack Welker. In addition, Todd is also one of the most hated characters in the series due to his heinous actions.
Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) ranks relatively low when taking into account only his actions and condition in the Breaking Bad series. He uses a wheelchair, and must ring a bell to speak. He could be meaner and more evil if he were physically able, which fans see in Better Call Saul.
If Hector is a tragic hero, than his tragic flaw would be his stubbornness to accept the force of fate and his own delusional belief in a Trojan victory. But beneath these flaws are the works of understandable human feelings; Hector does all this because of his desire to protect Troy, his people and his family.
The gods argue back and forth, but eventually Zeus, the king of the gods, sends Achilles' mother, Thetis, to request that Achilles return the body of Hector to the dead man's father for a ransom of gold. Achilles agrees in order to show respect for the gods.
He became one of Tuco Salamanca's most trusted enforcers and later became the lieutenant of both Hector and Lalo Salamanca. Against his will, Nacho later became an informant to Gustavo Fring after being blackmailed by him.
The Salamanca cousins don't speak due to Breaking Bad positioning them as a terrifying force of nature, but this, unfortunately, does not work. Throughout season 3, the audience is slowly given information about how the brothers are getting to New Mexico, and how they find out about Walter White and Hank Schrader.
Marco and Leonel Salamanca, commonly known as The Cousins, are twin brothers, deadly enforcers, and prolific hitmen for Don Eladio Vuente's drug cartel. As members of the Salamanca family, the two cousins are grandsons of Abuelita and the nephews of Hector Salamanca.
Gus Fring hated Hector Salamanca, because Hector killed Max Arciniega, who was Gus's best friend and possibly lover in 1989.
Gus and Max's relationship was long implied to be more than business before their confirmation as lovers by showrunner Peter Gould in 2022.
Max Arciniega was the business and romantic partner of Gustavo Fring and co-founder of the Los Pollos Hermanos franchise. He held advanced degrees in both biochemistry and chemical engineering. Max's education was financed by Gus after Gus rescued him from the slums of Santiago.
He knew that Hector would ring the bell and call for attention. - Quora. Why didn't Gus tie up Hector's hand before killing him? He knew that Hector would ring the bell and call for attention.
Though the Salamancas didn't uncover the truth of his involvement until Better Call Saul season 6, Gustavo Fring immediately realized Nacho was the man responsible for depriving Hector of his life-saving meds. In fact, this was how Gus blackmailed Nacho into serving as a double agent.
He grabbed Juan Bolsa's (Javier Grajeda) weapon and held him at gunpoint, but instead of taking out Hector, Gus or any of the other high-ranking cartel members with him, he died by suicide.
Joaquin is one of three characters in Breaking Bad to be killed by Jesse, the first being Gale Boetticher and the last being Todd Alquist during the show's final episode.