You guys are right, it was Andrea little brother that died, Brock just got poisoned.
tolwyn
1642
Something just occured to me, so I’ll post it here to be ripped to shreds. Walt’s got the big gun, he’s calling in a hit on Jesse, right? I’m thinking that Todd’s uncle grabs Jesse, realizes he can cook like Heisenberg, and forces him to cook for him. Walt, partly out of outrage over someone using his recipe, partly out of guilt over giving up on Jesse, goes in all Scarface-like and rescues him. Jesse is of course cooking in the desert in the same RV they used at the beginning. Walt and Jesse drive off, everyone else being dead. cue credits.
Papageno
1643
Pretty sure that RV was crushed/destroyed at some point, IIRC.
corsair
1644
I expect Walter White’s past finally catches up to him and the ending isn’t pretty, for him or just about anyone else (Hank’s willingness to let Jesse die while in his care pretty much crosses him off my list as the one good guy left standing). A massive train wreck is going to happen - but Walt rescuing Jesse as his final act wouldn’t be out of character. So many loved TV programs can’t nail the finale - I’m hoping this will be one that finally gets it right.
mok
1645
So anyway…
Social Services was here.
Again.
My wife and I just started this show. We’ve been watching 1 season per day when we do watch it.
Our children cry “We’re hungry! We need food!”
“Quiet! Quiet YOU!”
I’m glad there are no ATM machines around here. That’s all I’m saying.
Brad W.: Hi, my name is Brad. I’m a Breaking Bad addict.
Us: Hi Brad!
curst
1648
That certainly one way to end an episode. Goddamn!
Although it almost got comical. I assume by the end of next episode we’ll see a bullet actually hit a target?
Yeah, no kidding. TV guns fights.
olaf
1651
Great episode. I was disappointed to see the end scene though, I can’t help rooting for Walt at this point. I guess thugs don’t ever get to the firing range. Good thing for the rest of us.
Well, say good-bye to Hank and Gomez. I’m feeling more sentimental for Gomez than I am for Hank. It was a little depressing to see Walt race across town, right into their trap.
I’m guessing Jesse survives and somehow escapes. Or maybe the family presses Jesse into service to teach Todd how to cook?
LMN8R
1654
I feel like if Hank and Gomez were gone, we’d have seen it in this episode. Either way though, I’m glad we get at least one more episode with them.
I don’t know, not showing what happens to them certainly makes this a cliff-hanger and they’ve been cliff-hangering every episode during this half season.
The phone call to Marie pretty much said “HANK IS GOING TO DIE REAL SOON”. Even prior to Todd’s uncles arriving I assumed Hank was a goner just off that phone call and the awkward length and “I love yous” and such. Of course, it is entirely possible the call as it played out was placed in there as a red herring, but I suspect Hank and Gomez do die. Them dying (probably taking some of the gang with them) is the easiest path to a free Walt, which has to happen in the next couple of episodes to mesh with the flash forwards of him coming back to town and getting an M-60.
wumpus
1656
My take:
TL;DR, the show never does what you expect. Killing them is the obvious outcome, so it won’t happen. Meth Damon’s crew wasn’t even trying to hit them, just force them to run out of ammo so they can be captured. And having them survive as hostages is an even more interesting outcome vis-a-vis leverage over Walt and meth production.
corsair
1657
Seven guys in real bad need of target practice.
I agree with Coca-Cola that the Hank/Marie phone call reeked of Hank counting his chickens before they were booked and incarcerated. And you knew the Aryan Nation was going to show up anyway, despite what Walt told them. But how it plays out from there, I couldn’t say. The obvious way to play it out is Hank and Gomez get snuffed, but why play out the gun battle without resolution (200 misses at short range) if an obvious conclusion is coming in the first seconds of the next episode?
Mr_Zero
1658
I think you’ll be right about Hank’s fate, but if the show never does what you’d expect, then that’s just as predictable as always doing what you expect. It’s like watching Anthony Jeselnik tell jokes. You know he’s going to have a dark punchline, so once you hear the premise, you can pretty well guess where he’s going. If Gilligan and co. were really into being unpredictable, they’d be obvious once in a while… but they feel like they’re more about satisfying than surprising.
The best case for Hank’s survival is where the episode left off. I’m hoping Gomie gets shot though; I’m tired of that dude’s line readings.
If we’re making wild overall plot predictions, mine is that Hank and Gomie (and some of the nazi dudes) do die, Walt and Jesse are snatched up by Todd’s uncles as meth-cook slaves for Lydia’s org. Walt either escapes and goes on the run or they just let him free when they figure out he’s dying of cancer soon because they have Jessie and that’s sufficient. And then Walt coming back home with the M-60 is to take out the Nazi gang and attempt to save Jessie, a last ditch partially redeeming act in spite of the current betrayal he feels from Jessie. No particular prediction on what happens to Walt’s family though, especially Walt Jr and the baby. Skyler seems destined to die though, either from Lydia’s group/Todd or possibly even suicide when everything falls apart and she is totally implicated as more than just a duped wife.
tgb123
1660
I’m thinking that following the shootout Walt either refuses to cook or cooks for a short while and then leaves, so that the White supremecists take Walt Jr and/or Skyler hostage to force him to return, which he will with the M-60.
