Funkula
1822
But you will get a nice bowl of Ben & Jerry’s for a job well done.
OTOH, free Americone Dream, and that stuff is delicious.
That was bad ass. Everyone has been punked and punked hard. Walt got his ego tweaked by his ex-girlfriend, so now he’s back in the game.
I wonder if his breaking of the bacon and his easting of the breakfast is meant more as a metaphorical death of his family? The sweet, brilliant man is gone and all that’s left is the dude in the pork pie. Even though the pork pie in question is hanging on a moose head somewhere in New Hampshire.
Strollen
1825
Up until the last scene, I think there are a black holes which emit more light than the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad. I am not sure while the main character haven’t all slit their wrists. I was very impressed with last scene what a interesting way of tying up all threads of the story into a burqa.
Robert Forster was a fantastic choice as the vacuum guy. He nailed it. "This should go better this time. I watched a couple of youtube videos. . . "
Agreed - he was brilliant choice.
There were honestly less deaths in this episode than I expected . . . but I still was shocked to the core, and on the edge of my seat when Skylar and Jesse were imminently close to dying.
I still have no good theory as to why Heisenberg needs the ricin . . . he could be targeting his old partners, Jesse in captivity, the nazis, who knows.
There are many strings still to be tied up in the final 60 minutes . . . I cant wait to see and I have no idea what is coming . . .
Do you think he’d actually try to kill his old Gray Matter partner? It seems crazy even for Walter, but that guy was totally off our radar before last night. Now I’m at least thinking about it, and that’d be more of a ricin than assault rifle kind of target.
He sure seemed mad at Eliot and Gretchen but I still think the ricin is for Lydia (telegraphed indirectly by reminding us of her very specific tea sweeting preferences in last night’s episode).
I think that despite the obvious emotional implications of that Charlie Rose segment, it was basically just to subtly introduce the idea that Walt now knows Heisenberg-style meth is back on the market, which tells Walt Jesse is still alive and cooking. I also still believe the Big Gun is for freeing Jesse from the Nazis.
Teiman
1830
Whatever happend next, I hope Jesse has a good final. He is a good men and has a good heart.
DrDel
1831
Prediction:
My take is Jesse will live and he will be the father of Andrea’s boy (since he is now motherless).
Walt has to die. Jesse will kill him when Walt frees him from the Nazis.
Skylar and the rest of the family will take some heat but will get through it.
Ricin is definitely for Lydia.
hepcat
1832
That’s too nice an ending, I’m guessing.
tgb123
1833
It dawned on me that Skyler has a terrible attorney. The DEA really has nothing on her, and it’s all empty threats and bluster. In fact, I’m not even sure why Saul felt the need to disappear. There’s no evidence of his involvement, other than lawyerin’, and I don’t think Todd or the Nazi’s even know about him.
They were explicit in the show that her attorney was a public defender (the disappearing guy mentioned this), so it isn’t unrealistic that he would be a pale shadow of, say, Saul Goodman.
I would assume Saul took off because of the (not entirely correct, but understandably misunderstood) implication that Huell and Patrick (Boston beard guy) were compromised. Also Skylar knows about him and he has no reason to trust that she won’t mention his name.
We don’t know exactly what the DEA has on anyone at this point. I think the implication is that they do not have Jesse’s taped confession since the Nazis stole that, and it follows that they wouldn’t have the phone call of Walt’s angry “confession” to Jesse either. They do have Marie’s testimony, probably Walt’s fake confession, and whatever casework the police department still had on Heisenberg from before Hank realized he was Walter (but a lot of that might have been lost to the Nazis too if it was all still in boxes in Hank’s garage). And of course they have Walt’s phone call to Skyler, which was heavy on taking responsibility, but light on specifics.
I think that’s still enough to know there was a ton of money moving through the White household and carwash though, that’s more than enough for the DEA to squeeze Skyler as hard as they can. Like Saul said, Walt’s phone call might protect her eventually from serious legal repercussions with a mistrial or something, but it’s not going to prevent them from putting her through the wringer now.
And I imagine there’s certainly something in one of those bits of confession to tie Saul to someone, certainly Jesse if not Walt, and even if there’s not enough there to do legal damage to Saul, that would put him on the Nazis’ radar. He’s disappearing to escape them more than prosecution, I would think.
edit: And I just realized Marie might be willing to throw Skyler under the bus regardless of Walt’s efforts to shield her. Marie was already furious with Skyler’s role in things a couple episodes ago when it was “simply” about Hank being shot earlier, now that Hank’s dead and Walt’s nowhere to be found, that might be too much for her to let Skyler off the hook for.
tgb123
1836
Even a PD would know better, I would think.
Oh man, I would love for the spin-off with Saul to happen, and for the first episode to be him managing whatever that store type he was saying was “best case scenario” and then being sort of pulled back into some off the books lawyering, or some such. Could be a great show.
I’m sure I read that it’s going to be a prequel.
hepcat
1839
Yeah, prequel. But I had the same thought when Saul mentioned managing a Cinnabon. I would KILL for that show.
The internet rumors/interviews were that Jesse was supposed to die at the end of Season 1.
I don’t see any way he survives the series.
Ditto for Walt - his death has been a central plot point from episode 1 - he’s a goner.
