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| “ | You're not cut out for this line of work, Walter. You should get out, while you still can. | „ |
| ~ Krazy-8 to Walter White during their last conversation. |
Domingo Gallardo Molina, better known as Krazy-8, is a supporting antagonist in Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul.
A low-key meth distributor, he was formerly associated with the Salamanca family before later becoming an independent drug dealer working with people like Jesse Pinkman. He is the cousin of Emilio Koyama.
He was portrayed by Max Arciniega.
Biography
Background Information
Krazy-8 was born in 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he also states to have lead the majority of his life. His father owns Tampico Furniture, a furniture store, and used to work in his store before quitting. He achieved a degree in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico. Domingo originally wanted to study music in Oberlin College or Berklee College, but his father persuaded him not to do so. He had an uncle called Alex who wrote songs for the Tampico Furnitore store commercial jingles. Domingo's family was also close with the Varga family, eventually leading to drug dealer Nacho Varga vouching for Domingo and taking him on as a dealer to work for his boss and Southvalley drug distributor, Tuco Salamanca.
Better Call Saul
In season 2, Domingo is seen delivering cash payment to Tuco Salamanca but Nacho Varga, who is a long time friend of his, stops Tuco from scrutinizing his amounts and lets him go without trouble.
Domingo is later seen delivering a cash payment while Hector Salamanca is watching the exchange. Having come up short on his share, Nacho graciously agrees to allow him to go free under the agreement he pays in full the next time. Turning events for the worse however was objection from Hector, who commands Nacho to bring back Domingo and brutally beat him up as punishment for shorting them.
The next week, Domingo is still seen with injuries from being beaten up by Nacho. He delivers another payment to Nacho, who tells him that he gave him the right correct amount of cash and thankfully lets Domingo go.
After Hector suffers a stroke and Nacho (who actually caused the stroke) temporarily takes over the Salamanca territory, Domingo is promoted to a lieutenant position.
When Lalo Salamanca arrives to run Hector's business, he gives Domingo his nickname of Krazy-8 due to his misplaying of a poker hand. After Domingo is arrested, he becomes a DEA informant. This benefits Lalo as it gives him a way to sabotage Gus Fring's operations but after Lalo’s death in Season 6 and the degradation of the cartel in New Mexico, Domingo adopts the street name of Krazy-8 more prominently and becomes an independent distributor who works alongside his cousin Emilio Koyama and his friend Jesse Pinkman. He would eventually buy a house too and a dog to show off his new found wealth.
Breaking Bad
In Season 1, Krazy-8 reports the location of Emilio Koyama and Jesse Pinkman's meth lab to the DEA, which leads to the bust of the lab and the arrest of Emilio. Upon entering the meth trade, Walter White has his business partner Jesse contact Emilio and Krazy-8 to distribute their new "blue sky" methamphetamine. Emilio and Krazy-8 believe that Jesse set them up to be busted by the DEA, especially when they see Walt, who had been at the crime scene during a ride-along. A fight ensues in which Jesse is knocked unconscious, and Krazy-8 holds Walt at gunpoint. To save his life, Walt offers to show them how to cook meth, but in reality synthesizes phosphine gas with red phosphorus, causing a chemical reaction that kills Emilio and knocks Krazy-8 unconscious.
Walt and Jesse dissolve Emilio's corpse with chemicals, but are surprised to find that Krazy-8 is still alive. As Jesse disposes of Emilio's remains, he tells Walt to "deal with" Krazy-8, whom they have tied up in the basement of Jesse's house. Seeing that Walt is not an experienced criminal, Krazy-8 plays on his fear and compassion, telling him he doesn't have it in him to kill and promising he will not tell anyone what happened. Believing he has formed a bond with Krazy-8, Walt decides to let him go, and goes to the kitchen to make him a sandwich. Suddenly, Walt passes out on the floor, accidentally shattering the plate he had put the sandwich on.
When Walt regains consciousness, he tells Krazy-8 he has lung cancer, and Krazy-8 feigns concern for his health and manipulates him into thinking he cares. Upstairs while cleaning up, Walt sees that a piece of the plate is missing, however, and deduces that Krazy-8 plans to stab him with it once he is freed, suddenly panicking inside his head. As Krazy-8 reassures Walt that he is doing the right thing, Walt catches him reaching for the shard of plate in his pocket, asks if he will kill him, and when he pulls out the shard and stabs him the leg, overpowers him and chokes him to death with the bicycle lock restraining him. He and Jesse then dissolve his corpse with the same chemicals they used on Emilio but properly flush the remains down the toilet this time.
In Season 2, while discussing the manhunt for Tuco Salamanca, Hank Schrader tells the DEA agents that Tuco was possibly responsible for the disappearance of "our dearly missed Krazy-8" given how Tuco brutally deals with rivals. Hank sarcastically orders the agents to put their hats over their heart for Krazy-8 while Steven Gomez states that they brought Tuco in for questioning on Krazy-8's disappearance, but they couldn't make any accusations stick.
Trivia
- Krazy-8's actor is the namesake of Gus Fring's former business partner and lover Maximino Arciniega.
- Krazy-8's counterpart in Metástasis, the Colombian remake of Breaking Bad, is El Loco.
External Links
- Krazy 8 on the Breaking Bad Wiki.
