However, the idea was not so improbable as Mike had used a tracker in the gas tank cover of Saul's car in order to track where he would have been in the desert. Mike recovered the cover before they went on the trek through the desert so he would have been able to leave tracker with the money bags and locate them later.
Mike tests his new bug and sees that not only is it battery-operated, the accompanying monitor gives a low battery warning. Inspired, he comes up with a plan: he will replace the bug in the gas cap with his bug and run down the other bug's battery by wiring it up to a transistor radio.
Just before he and Jimmy pushed the Suzuki Esteem into the ditch, Mike removed the gas cap so as not to leave any evidence of his subterfuge.
I've talked to others about this and no one can give me an answer so I turn to you wonderful people. Gus had his men put the tracker on the tan station wagon that Mike used to go kill Hector. Horn honks. Mike finds note.
He raced to a junk yard where he completely dismantled his car in search of a tracking device. After all, it's the only way anyone could have known he was out there trying to kill Hector.
After searching through every possible square inch of every component in the car, Mike finally found what he was looking for: a tracker concealed in the cap of the gas tank.
Mike Ehrmantraut drives to the site where he committed the ice-cream truck robbery. Using information Nacho Varga provided, he finds the body of the Good Samaritan who was killed after freeing Ximenez Lecerda. He then makes an anonymous call and reports the location to the police.
Shut the f-ck up... and let me die in peace. Mike's last words before he dies of his injuries after being fatally shot by Walt. Saul Goodman sent me. Mike's first words in Breaking Bad.
Gustavo 'Gus' Fring : [to Mike] Would you care to know why I stopped you from killing Hector? A bullet to the head would have been far too humane.
When Gus has his men put a tracker on Mike's car, he gets right to work. Step 1: Find and remove the tracker from the vehicle so they can no longer track your whereabouts. Mike drops it his on his property, so to Gus and his men, it looks like Mike never leaves.
In the episode, Jimmy McGill agrees to travel to the desert as a "bagman" to pick up the $7 million that will serve as bail money for Lalo Salamanca. Once there, Jimmy finds himself in the middle of a shootout, where he encounters Mike Ehrmantraut.
The overriding intention behind Mike's Better Call Saul safe-swapping trick was to ensure Nacho's death without casting suspicion over Gus Fring.
Jimmy gets ambushed, shot at, saved by Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), stranded in the desert and forced to drink his own pee — all in one episode. Luckily, Jimmy and Mike make it back to civilization, and Jimmy and Kim are able to convince Lalo that everything is fine, despite Jimmy's dehydrated desert adventure.
Mike is a former Philadelphia police officer who works for Gus Fring—and, on occasion, Saul Goodman—as a private investigator, head of security, cleaner, and hitman.
Plot. A disguised Mike Ehrmantraut uses his spike strip to ambush one of Hector Salamanca's trucks and extracts the $250,000 hidden in a tire while leaving the driver, Ximenez Lecerda, tied up. Nacho Varga suspects Mike, which Mike admits.
He worked for both Gustavo Fring and Saul Goodman as a private investigator, head of security, cleaner, fixer, and hitman. Mike has extensive knowledge of how to operate on both sides of the law without detection.
After all he did, his guys were killed and his grandaughter won't ever get her money. It was all for nothing. Then Jesse Pinkman tried to give Kaylee half of his $5 mil buyout, but Saul wouldn't arrange it.
In "Hermanos", Eladio says that when he ordered Max killed, he spared Gus because of his unstated but apparently powerful connection to Chile.
Nacho realizes Hector suffers from angina and decides to try to kill him by replacing his nitroglycerin with an ibuprofen placebo in the hopes of inducing a fatal heart attack.
Last chance to look at me, Hector. Gus Fring's last words before his death at Hector's hands.
Hector: It is! IT IS PERSONAL-! Hector to Juan Bolsa, his last spoken words before his crippling stroke.
Hank Schrader – Breaking Bad
Do what you gotta do.” How He Died: Shot in the head by Neo-Nazi Jack.
So, there you have it. A Chicago Sunroof is not a real thing.
Mike tries to dispose of the gun but is told by Cooper Saxe that nightclub owner James St. Patrick was arrested as the culprit in Greg's death.
The woman has range. She even knows what kind of soaking bath cures a guy desiccated in the desert. So, Juan Bolsa was behind the attempted hijacking of Lalo's $7 million in bail cash. At least, that is what Gus has concluded after talking to the elegant, even-tempered señor.