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In Breaking Bad S04E12 End Times, at the end Gus walks towards his car at the hospital parking with his two bodyguards, with Walt watching from an adjacent rooftop. As Gus is approaching the car he stops dead in his track with a doomed look on his face and heads over to the railing. He looks around but is not able to see Walt or sense anything out of place(as far as the viewers can tell). But he still walks away from the rigged car.

How does Gus sense that there is something wrong with the car? Moreover, Gus is never shown to be paranoid or doing things over a hunch, so how is this explainable?

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From this source:

"Walt was right when he said that Gus is always 10 moves ahead. Gus didn't need to be right about his car being sabotaged; he was just smart enough to know that he was walking into what would be a perfect trap, and one he’d happily spring if the tables were turned. So he walked away."

Basically Gus wasn't sure if his car had been rigged to blow, but he knew if he was trying to kill someone it would have been a perfect way of achieving this.

He is clearly very good at reading situations and this lead to him being so successful he in such a dangerous industry.

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Also I'm pretty sure Jesse tells him about the poison. Gus knows he didn't do it and is therefore on edge. – Tony Mar 5 at 18:32
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Right; knowing that the poisoning (which he didn't do) drew him out to such an unfamiliar location, Gus (rightly) suspected someone (Walt or not) might have set-up this opportunity. – JoshDM Mar 5 at 20:29

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