page_title: List of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters
section_title: Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
hierarchical_section_title: List of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters / Main characters / Introduced in Breaking Bad / Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
caption_attribution_description: Español: Las actrices Siobahn Finneran y Laura Fraser presentan nueva serie de Calle13 y se llama Loch Ness. Moobys tuvo la oportunidad de hablar con ella. English: Actresses Siobahn Finneran and Laura Fraser discuss their new television series, Loch Ness (The Loch) with Moobys, Spanish web portal.
context_page_description: Breaking Bad is an American television series created by Vince Gilligan that premiered in 2008. The show was followed in 2015 by the prequel series Better Call Saul, created by Gilligan and Peter Gould, and in 2019 by the film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, directed by Gilligan. The following is a list of characters from both series and the feature film.
context_section_description: Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (played by Laura Fraser) is an executive of Madrigal Electromotive GmbH, working out of the company's office in Houston, Texas. She originally works with Gus Fring as a conspirator and supplier of chemicals required for his drug business in the American southwest. In Better Call Saul, Gus has Lydia help arrange a position for Mike in Madrigal as a security consultant as a means to launder money Mike had stolen from the Salamancas. Meant only as a paper job with no responsibilities, Mike takes the job seriously and inspects several Madrigal sites. Lydia complains to Gus, but he tells Lydia to let Mike be, leading Mike to help serve Gus as one of his own lead security men. Lydia later is present when Gus discreetly reports to Peter, the CEO of Madrigal about the situation with Lalo Salamanca that is stalling the construction of his superlab, but assures the both that he has plans to deal with Lalo.
  Within Breaking Bad, Lydia continues to quietly provided chemicals to Gus for Walt's meth production. Following his violent death at the hands of Walt, the DEA begins investigating the link between Gus and Madrigal. Lydia becomes anxious and asks Mike to eliminate 11 people who were involved with Gus and could expose her. When he refuses, Lydia makes the same offer to one of the 11 on her hit list and adds Mike to it. However, Mike ambushes and kills the new hit man, and deduces that Lydia is responsible. He consequently breaks into Lydia's home, ready to execute her, but allows her to live contingent on her providing methylamine for a new meth operation to be run by Walt, Jesse, and Mike.
  After Lydia provides the first shipment, the DEA visits Madrigal and Lydia is forced to give up her man in the warehouse to the DEA. When Mike sends Jesse to Houston to pick up the next shipment, he and Lydia find a GPS tracker at the bottom of one of the barrels. Mike guesses that Lydia placed it because she wants out of the business, and again vows to kill her. After bugging Hank's office, they find that the tracker was planted by the DEA's Houston office. Lydia provides Walt, Jesse, and Mike information about a freight train that includes a tanker car full of methylamine, enabling a 1,000-gallon heist which ensures they can continue cooking meth almost indefinitely. Later, she provides Walt with a new market in the Czech Republic, using her resources and network to distribute the meth in large quantities.
  After Walt quits, Declan and his gang take over the meth business, but produce a poor quality product. Lydia and Jack's gang arrange the massacre of Declan's crew, after which Jack's gang takes the methylamine and begins running Declan's business, later kidnapping Jesse to cook a better product for them. Months later, during a meeting with Todd, Walt (now a wanted criminal) interrupts a regular coffee shop meeting between Lydia and Todd to offer a new method of meth production. Lydia appears to agree to Walt's offer, but after Walt leaves she suggests to Todd that Walt should be killed at the meeting. That evening Lydia is obviously ill and calls Todd to check on whether the gang killed Walt. Walt answers Todd's phone and tells her that Jack and his gang are all dead and she will soon be dead too, because he added ricin to the stevia she used in her tea during the meeting at the coffee shop. In the 2019 movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Jesse hears a radio news report that confirms Walt's death and mentions that a woman from Houston, presumably Lydia, is critically ill after having been poisoned. The report indicates that her suspected ties to Walt are being investigated, and that she is not expected to survive.
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