Shadowing Practice: Hank Puts Gus on the Spot | Breaking Bad (Dean Norris, Giancarlo Esposito) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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You know Hank Schrader?
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You know Hank Schrader?
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Yes, indeed.
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And Steve Gomez?
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How was your meal?
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Agent Schrader and I got a chance to catch up at one of my restaurants a few days ago.
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I'd eat there every day, but I wouldn't fit through the door.
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Well, should we get started?
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Yeah.
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I'd like to record this conversation, if that's OK.
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Of course.
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The DEA is working on an investigation, which may overlap with my own.
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so I've asked them to sit in with us today.
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Gus, we all appreciate your coming in here to talk to us, but you have the right to have an attorney present also.
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Oh, well, I can't see how that would be necessary.
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But then again, I have no idea why I'm here.
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So you wish to continue?
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Please, I'm very anxious to find out what this is all about.
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Sir, your fingerprints were found at a crime scene.
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Really?
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That's surprising.
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a drug-related homicide.
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Gail Bettecker's apartment.
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So you knew the victim.
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Fifteen years ago, I established a chemistry scholarship at UNM.
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I named it after Maximino Arseniega, a dear friend of mine who died too young.
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Gail was a recipient of this scholarship.
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He was perhaps one of three dozen.
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I see.
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And Mr. Bedeker graduated in...
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1999.
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That sounds right.
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And you kept in regular contact with him over all this time?
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Oh, no. I hadn't seen Gail for years until I ran into him a few weeks ago.
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Ran into him where?
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At the restaurant.
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Well, ran into isn't quite accurate, as I assumed he came by to reestablish contact with me.
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We caught up briefly, and he invited me to dinner the following night, and I accepted.
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It was perhaps a week later I read about him in the paper.
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Drug related you said?
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It's a good possibility.
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The paper made no mention of that.
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I assumed that it was a random crime.
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So after years of no contact, he shows up in your restaurant, remakes your acquaintance and invites you to dinner?
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He wanted money.
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Gail Bedecker asked you for money?
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He didn't come right out and say that.
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that he spoke in terms of a vague investment opportunity.
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But it was my suspicion, yes, as to why he invited me into his home.
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He was a very, very talented chemist.
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But for reasons I never understood, he was more interested in taking shortcuts than what would or could have been a very promising career.
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But the personal shortcomings notwithstanding, he was a warm, gentle person, and I thought a lot of him.
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At any rate, I, uh, decaligned his business offer.
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And after what was a very pleasant meal, left.
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Can you tell us where you were on the night of Wednesday the 23rd at around 8 p.m.?
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Not an accusation, just a question.
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Oh, I understand.
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Let's see.
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23rd.
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Ah, I was at a fundraiser at Presbyterian Hospital.
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I was there from 7 to about 10.
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Anyone else?
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Uh, sorry, yeah, just, uh, just one other thing.
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Um, is Gustavo Fring your real name?
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Is it my real name?
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I know you're a, uh, Chilean national, but there are no records of you ever living there.
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Really?
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I mean, records show that you immigrated to Mexico in 1986, and then a couple years later, you were granted an entry visa to the United States.
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But there's no record of Gustavo Fring ever having existed in Chile, which I find, I don't know, strange.
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No, really, it isn't.
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General Pinochet's government was guilty of a great many sins.
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First and foremost were its human rights abuses.
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But it was also notoriously unreliable in keeping records.
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I'm sure if you keep digging, you'll find me.
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Okay, I think that's it, Gus.
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Thank you.
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I hope that I was of some small help.
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You were, absolutely.
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Thank you.
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You're very welcome.
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Good to see you again.
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Good to see you again.
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Oh no, no, please, please don't get out.
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Thanks.
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Gentlemen.
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Thank you.

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