What was with the crawling in breaking bad

Hector calls Marco and tricks him into getting a cold beer inside a tub of icy water, only to push his head in it. As Marco is slowly drowning, Hector coldly asks Leonel if this is what he wants. Leonel eventually punches his Tio in the face to make him stop.

Hector releases Marco and then gets up, "family is all," he tells the twins " One Minute ". Mike Ehrmantraut notices The Cousins standing on a rooftop adjacent to the motel swimming pool where he is watching Kaylee.

One of them makes a gun signal at Kaylee, implying a threat on her life due to Mike's continued refusal of Don Hector's offer to clear Tuco of gun charges as Mike's face shivers in anger and he rushes Kaylee out of the pool for her own safety. They are later present at the meeting Mike has with Hector along with Nacho Varga. The Cousins are with Hector inside a shack in the desert when Nacho and Arturo bring in a tied up Ximenez , the Salamancas' truck driver who smuggled their drugs from Mexico to the US.

The Cousins execute him on orders from Don Hector after he fell for an ambush and lost Hector's drug money. Unbeknownst to them, Mike was the one who ambushed Ximenez as retaliation on the Salamancas harrassing him. After Don Hector's stroke, the Cousins visit their uncle, identifying him as such to Dr.

Maureen Bruckner. The doctor informs them that Hector has been getting excellent care at the facility, but they are going to try something a little different and explains how they intend to teach Hector's brain to rewire itself after his stroke. The two are joined by Nacho and Arturo partway through the doctor's explanation. The Cousins prompt Nacho and Arturo speak to the unconscious Hector and stand by silently as the two men give Hector an update.

The Cousins are called to rescue Nacho in the desert after him and Arturo got supposedly ambushed by an unknown foe in reality, this ambush was all staged by Gustavo Fring. They arrive at the scene of the ambush to find Arturo dead and Nacho seriously injured, so they recur to Dr.

Caldera to save Nacho's life, as he is the only surviving witness of the ambush and the only one who could help them find who did this. As part of his plans to make more territories available in Albuquerque, Gus frames the Espinosa Gang for the attack on Nacho and Arturo. Nacho plays along with the plan, as he takes the Cousins to identify the Espinosas as the attackers.

He wants to get a crew together and ambush the gang at night, but the Cousins decide to attack right away in the middle of the day. They grab their bag of weapons, kill the guard in the entrance and walk inside shooting. At one point, reinforcements arrive and Nacho decides to take action, but he is still weakened by the faked attack he suffered earlier, so he is unable to help the Cousins as they kill the entire Espinosa Gang and wipe them out of existence. Afterwards, Nacho informs Gus that Marco and Leonel traveled back to Mexico to wait for the heat to die down.

The Cousins collect Lalo's seven million dollar bail money from a chop shop. They later meet with Saul Goodman in desert spot designated by Lalo. Lalo subsequently asks if the Cousins paid Saul which he confirms. Lalo later prepares to have the Cousins pick him up at the same spot they dropped off the bail money, but changes his mind after finding Saul's wrecked car. When questioned by Nacho, Lalo simply states that he will get a message to the Cousins later.

The Cousins are briefly mentioned when Tuco Salamanca kidnaps Walter White and Jesse Pinkman following a police crackdown on his operations. His plan was to take Walt across the border to cook for him full-time, mentioning that his cousins would be arriving to help them across, but before the Cousins were able to arrive, Walt and Jesse escaped and Tuco was shot dead.

It is revealed via flashback that the Cousins had an off-screen participation in this point of the story. Juan Bolsa visits Tortuga in a bar and tricks him into going to the back to show him a gift. Name required. Follow Following. The Economics of Breaking Bad. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. His robe sleeve having caught fire, he too jumps in after.

Meanwhile, Skyler meets with a divorce attorney who advises her that maintaining residence in the house will strengthen her position in a custody case. Skyler explains that Walt is moving out that day. Questioned about the family's finances, Skyler momentarily freezes. Hank arrives to help with the move just as Walt fishes the last of the cash — and the plastic eyeball belonging to the pink teddy bear from the crash — out of his pool.

Wrestling a duffel bag full of drug money away from his brother-in-law, Hank asks, "What have you got in there? Cinder blocks? Hank laughs, congratulating Walt on keeping a sense of humour. Jesse remains in the rehab program, and participates in a meeting in which the group leader describes self-acceptance and a desire for self-improvement as essential to transformation. The next day, Walt calls home from his new apartment. Junior picks up the phone and complains that no one is telling him what is going on concerning his parents' marriage.

Over Skyler's objections, Junior arranges for Walt to drive him to school. At Walt's high school , a student assembly is called to discuss the recent tragedy. Walt is visibly uncomfortable as a student describes finding the remains of a Wayfarer passenger on his lawn. Noticing this, Carmen encourages Walt to express himself. Walt tries to assuage his guilt by telling his increasingly incredulous audience to "look on the bright side", using the higher death toll from the Tenerife disaster to suggest that the Wayfarer crash isn't so bad by comparison.

Carmen, finding Walt's words inappropriate, cuts his speech short. Traditionally, crawling on their knees all the way to the shrine is a form of devotion and is performed to ask for favors from the Saint Death.

The scene where the Twins light candles and pray in front of the bejeweled skeleton saint comes out as quite uncanny, especially considering their character painted with all the shades of evil. But all of this becomes clear when they place a sketch of Walter White in front of the Santa Muerte deity. They perform the prostration and rituals to ask the Bony Lady for help in finding and killing Walter White.

The crawling was a gesture to show humility and abnegation to Santa Muerte. There is a tinge of foreboding in the crawling scene of S3E1. In a later episode, one of the Twins had his legs amputated, and while being treated at the hospital, he dismounted from the bed and crawled towards Walter in a feeble attempt to kill him. The crawling scene towards the shrine of Santa Muerte was a precursor to this crawling scene in the hospital.

It is why I decided to include a few insights about the Twins, also known as the Cousins. In Breaking Bad, the Cousins are rarely seen talking. Aside from when they are children, they speak only five or six times in the entire series.