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| “ | I was wondering when you were gonna remember me. | „ |
| ~ Neil to Jesse. |
| “ | What do you say... your .22... against my .45? Winner takes all. | „ |
| ~ Neil challenging Jesse to a duel. |
Neil Kandy is the main antagonist of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, the 2019 sequel film to Breaking Bad.
He was the owner of Kandy Welding Co who, along with his colleague Casey, had formerly been associated with drug lord Jack Welker and his White Supremacist gang.
He was portrayed by Scott MacArthur, who also played Scotty Steele in The Righteous Gemstones.
Personality
Neil is a corrupt, cruel, and ruthless businessman. He shown to be a greedy, uncaring, sadistic, hedonistic, brutal, and downright sociopathic individual. Altogether, his only real concerns in life are money and the vices he can indulge with it (mainly prostitutes and drugs, judging by the party he's holding when Jesse visited his place of business). True to his vicious, savage, and sadistic nature, he was also shown to have gotten a kick out of Jesse's enslavement back when he was imprisoned by the Neo-Nazis, even being amused by the sight of Kenny forcing Jesse to degrade and humiliate himself while testing out the harness Neil made for him.
Neil's also a gambling man and is perfectly willing to put money or even his own life on the line purely for the thrill of it. The bet he made with Kenny over whether or not Jesse would break the harness, however, was also motivated by a sense of personal pride. Although he's primarily a money hungry thug, he took genuine passion from his profession as a metalworker and was satisfied with the knowledge that Jesse couldn't break the harness that he crafted with his own skilled design.
Biography
Early life
Neil Kandy grew up to become a criminal torturer. He owned Kandy Welding Co. and helped his employer Jack Welker in building the latter's meth lab - making him an associate of Jack's gang in the process. He was one of the people responsible for the suffering that Jesse Pinkman endured as a slave to the Neo-Nazis, and created the device that he was chained to while cooking meth for them before sitting back and watching Todd Alquist and Kenny torment him in order to test the device. When Walter White, Jack's former associate wiped out the entire Neo Nazi compound, he and his right-hand man Casey weren't present at the time and thus survived the shootout he was responsible for.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Not long after Jack and Todd were killed in the skirmish with Walt, who later died from his injuries, Neil and Casey disguise themselves as police officers investigating Todd's apartment in order to find his drug money. They find Jesse, who came for the same reason, and take him as a hostage. When Jesse leads Neil to the money, he boldly takes a third of it despite having Neil's gun to his head. Despite threatening to kill him, Jesse calls him on his bluff: since they're in the middle of a busy apartment complex, Neil will be forced to kill a ton of potential witnesses that would undoubtedly hear gunfire. Once they take their shares of the money and go their separate ways, Jesse spots Neil getting into his truck from Kandy Welding Co. and realizes that he was the man who tormented him during his imprisonment. Neil, on the other hand, is pleased to see that Jesse finally remembers him.
Learning that he needed $1,800 more dollars to pay the "Disappearer" Ed Galbraith for his services, Jesse tracks down Neil and Casey who were holding a party with their co-workers to celebrate their ill-gotten gains. When Jesse asks Neil for the last bit of money that he needs, Casey becomes angry upon learning that Neil lied to him and said they'd split the money between themselves. Neil starts mocking Jesse's Colt Woodsman and offers him the location of his third of the money with Jesse doing the same. Neil suggests that they do a Wild-West-style duel to determine who will get the money. Jesse accepts the duel and as Neil draws his gun, Jesse shoots him several times with a second gun he had hidden in his jacket pocket. Jesse then uses Neil's gun to kill Casey and scare off Neil and Casey's friends. After killing the corrupt employees, Jesse blows up the building in order to cover his tracks, which destroys Neil and Casey's corpses. Jesse takes Neil's third of Todd's money which proves to be more than enough to cover the costs needed for him to start a new life in Alaska.
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Trivia
- The reason behind Neil Kandy's creation was because Vince Gilligan felt the need to include a new villain for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie to introduce a conflict for Jesse Pinkman. As Todd Alquist, Jack Welker and their fellow Neo-Nazis were all killed at the end of Breaking Bad, Gilligan created Kandy as a "Nazi-adjacent" character, describing him as a worse sociopath than Alquist.
External Links
- Neil Kandy on the Breaking Bad Wiki
