Kraichgauer wrote:
I always thought that Gus had had a gay vibe about him. He had, after all, had wept so inconsolably when Hector Salamaca had murdered his original chemist that I had to think there had been much more than just a friendship and working relationship between them. That, and as Gus had pursued his vendetta against the Salamacas, and in particular Hector personally even after all those years, I have to think this was the actions of a man avenging his one true love.
In the sequence leading up to Max's death there are remarks making this clear.
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