Don Eladio meets up with Gus, Mike and Jesse. Eladio is impressed with the latter's cooking skills, and wishes to have him cook for the Cartel, to the dismay of Eladio's current cook. As a token of respect for the renewed business relationship, Gus brings Don Eladio a gift of fine tequila, which all Cartel dons drink after Gus takes the first shot.
However, the tequila is actually poisoned. After Eladio, Gus, and the rest of the Cartel's lieutenants drank the tequila, Gus goes to the toilet and forces himself to regurgitate the drink (he had already taken a capsule to prevent the major effects of the poison, once arriving at Don Eladio's place). Don Eladio lives just long enough for Gus to reappear. Realizing Gus had betrayed and poisoned him, Eladio lunges towards Gus but, weakened, trips and falls in his swimming pool, lying motionless above the water as he dies.