villa-kulla:
One of the Breaking Bad parallels that kills me the most is between Grilled and Hermanos. In Grilled you have Walt desperately bargaining with Tuco not to kill Jesse by pleading “he’s my partner.” And then in the Hermanos flashback scene by the pool you have Max trying to convince the cartel not to kill Gus by begging: “es mi companero.”
And it’s so striking that 20 years apart it’s the same story. You’re so desperate and scared for your other half that when the stakes are so high and you’re faced with different generations of Salamancas holding guns that all you can even manage to say, the only possible defense you can offer under panic, the first words that even spring to mind are:
“He’s my partner.”
(что меня отдельно убивает, так это робкая мимолетная улыбка Джесси( "он меня не бросил, он меня действительно партнером считает").