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Chuck McGill (10 Episodes) Rhea Seehorn. Kim Wexler (10 Episodes) Patrick Fabian. Howard Hamlin (10 Episodes) Tony Dalton. Lalo Salamanca (10 Episodes) Giancarlo Esposito. Gus Fring (10 Episodes)
Cast & Crew for Better Call Saul Season 3
Bob Odenkirk. Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman 63 Episodes 2022. Michael McKean. Chuck McGill 63 Episodes 2022. Jonathan Banks. Mike Ehrmantraut 63 Episodes 2022. Rhea Seehorn. Kim 63 Episodes 2022 ...
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Huell Babineaux is Saul Goodman's former employee and personal bodyguard, who also executes various intimidation tactics and performs other errands. He provided a variety of services to Saul, including personal protection, intimidation and pick-pocketing. Huell also worked as an accomplice of Saul's bodyguard, Patrick Kuby, who were referred to as Saul's "A-Team." Hired more for his size and pickpocketing skills than his intelligence, he has a condition approximating narcolepsy (e.g., he falls asleep at odd times, such as when standing up or while on security detail), and has digestive problems that keep him from being as stoic as Saul would like.
During the bar association hearing considering Jimmy's disbarment over his break in at Chuck's house, he hires Huell to plant a cell phone battery in his brother Chuck's pocket as part of a strategy to discredit Chuck's claimed electromagnetic hypersensitivity, as Chuck believes he suffers from EHS. Jimmy later hires Huell to serve as a bodyguard while Jimmy conducts his business re-selling pre-paid cellular phones. Huell is arrested after he inadvertently assaults a police officer while protecting Jimmy, and faces up to two and a half years in prison as a result. Jimmy's law license is still suspended, so he brings in Kim Wexler to defend Huell. Huell plans to flee rather than go to prison, so Kim and Jimmy forge dozens of letters describing Huell as a hero and denouncing his arrest. The con forces the prosecutor to accept a plea bargain that ensures Huell does not go to prison. As part of their plot against Howard Hamlin, Jimmy and Kim enlist Huell's help to make a copy of Howard's car keys with the help of one of Huell's associates. After successfully making the keys, Huell questions why Jimmy and Kim are bothering with such illegal activity when they have legitimate jobs as great lawyers.
When Ted Beneke goes on a spending spree with the money Skyler arranged to give him, rather than paying his IRS debt as she intended, Huell and his colleague Patrick Kuby intimidate him into paying the IRS. Though they did not intend violence, Ted attempts to flee, falls, and suffers head and neck injuries that leave him paraplegic. Saul sends Huell and Kuby to collect Walt's money from a storage locker, and Saul tasks Huell with pickpocketing Jesse Pinkman's marijuana so Jesse will not be high when he contacts Ed Galbraith the "disappearer" for a new identity. It is while Jesse is waiting for Ed that he realizes his marijuana is gone and understands that Huell had earlier pickpocketed from him the ricin cigarette that Walter White had intended for Jesse to use in killing Gustavo Fring. Jesse's realization that Huell stole the ricin cigarette enables him to understand that Walt must have poisoned Brock Cantillo in order to turn Jesse against Gus (which is true, although Walt did not use ricin).
Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez later interrogate Huell to learn where Walt hid his money, telling him falsely that Walt intends to kill him to ensure that no one can trace Walt's drug-dealing past. They use a staged photo of Jesse, who appears to have been killed with a gunshot to the head, to coax Huell into revealing that he and Kuby packed Walt's money into seven barrels, then loaded the barrels into a rented van. Huell also reveals that the van was so dirty on the outside when Walt returned that they washed it before returning it, implying that Walt's money was buried somewhere in the desert. Hank and Gomez tell Huell to wait until they come back for him, but they are killed and never return. As the DEA had taken him in under false pretenses, they were forced to let him go in the end, and Huell returned home to New Orleans.
Background
Huell Babineaux was born on March 20, 1968. His arrest report gives conflicting evidence as to his birthplace. It specifically lists "New Mexico" as his birthplace but gives him a Social Security number beginning in 331, which is issued to those born in Illinois. ("Coushatta") Huell's hometown is eventually established to be Coushatta, Louisiana, although Francesca Liddy later tells Jimmy that Huell went "back home to New Orleans" after he was released from DEA custody.("Breaking Bad (episode)") At some point before 2001, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he became connected with Caldera, a veterinarian with underworld contacts. The cop who is assaulted by Huell says that he previously arrested him for pickpocketing in 2001. ("Something Stupid")
El Camino
Huell does not make an appearance in El Camino, but does appear in two videos for the countdown to to the film's release. In the first countdown video, Huell is shown hanging around the safehouse (as Hank and Gomez died before they were able to retrieve him), where he loafs impatiently and watches a news report about the events of "Felina". Upon the countdown's conclusion, another video was shown of Huell, tired of waiting, putting on his jacket and eventually leaving the safehouse on his own accord as the title credits to El Camino appear on his television. Though he did not appear in the film, it is humorously implied, through this breaking the fourth wall moment, that the length of time he waited for Hank and Gomez to return was long enough for the film to air.
Post-Breaking Bad
Saul asks Francesca Liddy about Huell and she reveals that Huell is apparently back home in New Orleans. As the DEA had held him under false pretenses, they were forced to release Huell in the end. ("Breaking Bad")
Huell is a stoic man who cares little for the actions of his employers. He continued to work with Walter White's drug empire after Walt had ten of Gus's employees murdered in prison, and he showed no remorse for his involvement in the poisoning of Brock Cantillo. He seems to be motivated primarily by money; he could not understand why Jimmy continued with his schemes despite already having reliable sources of income, and, when presented with Walter's pile of drug money, he immediately took the opportunity to "channel Scrooge McDuck" by laying on the cash. As a pickpocket, he is also not above theft, and was more than happy to steal from Walter's money stash alongside Kuby, even suggesting that they steal the entire pile and flee to Mexico.
However, Huell does have his limits. He was visibly upset when he learned of Jesse's supposed death, and he seemed to disapprove of Jimmy's plot to defame Howard Hamlin. He is also very loyal to Saul, as he attacked a police officer to protect him and broke through a door to save him from Jesse.
Murders connected to Huell
•Steven Gomez: Huell's information on Heisenberg directed Gomez to Tohajiilee, leading to his death in a shootout with Jack Welker's gang. •Hank Schrader: Given information on the location of Walter White's money by Huell. With this information, Hank attempted to arrest Walt in Tohajiilee, where he was executed by Jack.
•Huell's actor, Lavell Crawford, lost over 120 pounds between his appearances in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
•This, combined with the fact that Rhea Seehorn weighs about 119 pounds, led to a meme among fans where the ending of Better Call Saul was speculated to involve Huell eating Kim, leading to the weight difference between the two series.
•A recurring joke among Breaking Bad fans is that Huell is still waiting inside the safehouse, as Hank and Gomez died before they were able to retrieve him. The website Funny or Die made a joking video of a spin-off sitcom series called "Huell's Rules," showing Huell's life inside the safehouse. Of course, the video is not canon.
•Vince Gilligan later revealed in an interview that "It’s likely that Agent Van Oster keeps in touch with DEA headquarters. So, when he learns that Gomez and Hank have gone missing, he would in short order tell his superiors what they were up to. Within a matter of hours, really not that many in story time, Huell will be taken back to HQ. They’ll question him, find out what he knows – which isn’t much – and he’ll be let out on the street. Right now, he’s doing what Huell does best, whatever that is. He’s out and about as a free man."
•However, in October 2019, multiple tweeted videos made by Samsung for the countdown to El Camino showed Huell hanging around the safehouse, where he loafs impatiently and watches a news report about the events of "Felina". Upon the countdown's conclusion, another video was shown of Huell, tired of waiting, putting on his jacket and eventually leaving the safehouse on his own accord as the title credits to El Camino appear on his television. Though he did not appear in the film, it is humorously implied, through this breaking the fourth wall moment, that the length of time he waited for Hank and Gomez to return was long enough for the film to air.
•In Better Call Saul's "Breaking Bad", Francesca Liddy reveals that Huell was eventually released by the DEA and returned home to New Orleans, solving the long-running mystery of his fate.
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