Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

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Not sure how I feel about this episode. When Lydia was babbling about "dark territory" it ventured over the plausibility line for me, but the train sequence was hella fun. Loved Jesse laying on the track between the wheels.

 

Sorry, I misread your post. I was disagreeing with the assertion that Walt still has some sort of humane side. Jesse, absolutely. Walt, not so much.

 

No, I was backing you up. Walt was definitely on-board with "no one can know about this," though I think he probably had more "don't tell your girlfriend" in mind than "kill anyone who saw it."

Then again, Walt couldn't even follow his own advice. When Skyler spotted his dirty jeans, he told her he was "robbing a train."

 

The whole "dark territory" line really applies beyond no cell phone service or GPS. Apparently, moral compasses are all screwy. There's a dead fucking kid. I had to watch that final scene again to make sure what I had just seen really happened.

I. Love. This. Show.

 

I don't think Mike will be OK with this. And it wasn't necessary. How the hell would the kid know they had robbed the train? It looked like they were working on it more than anything. I think the "Todd's a loose cannon" part will bother Mike. Why did he even bring a gun? Look for Mike to say if Todd were part of his crew he would'nt have even had a gun with him for a job like this.
Loved, loved, loved the episode. You can't live in the world these guys are living in and not do serious collateral damage, and the show does not back away from that. Liked that they brought (almost) everyone off the bench for a role in this. (Saul's guy driving the truck, etc.)
And don't forget the early scene with Walt in Hank's office. Walt knows Skylar can't tell anyone Walt is the bad guy, so he just keeps making her the bad one. What a piece of crap he has turned into. Cranston has done so many amazing things with this character.

 

There is a growing conflict between Jesse and Walt that was confirmed by the trailers for next week. Jesse says, "So now we're in the killing kids business?" and Walt replies, "I'm in the empire-building business."

Seems like Jesse figured out where this was going, and they made two shows of the watch -- one when he gave it to Walt and one when Hank noticed Walt wearing it. I think Jesse has rolled and that watch has a bug in it.

 

I don't know about that re: Mike, print. He's the one who said, "There are two kinds of heists: the one where the guys get away with it, and the one with witnesses."

Maybe Mike wouldn't have killed the kid. But he likes to talk like he would have.

 

You wonder if that Marie-Hank picture gets bumped off of Hank's desk somehow and exposes the bug. This show does a lot of little things in similar veins, so that busted picture could go with the one found of Gus and that Swiss bank account.

 

So, this just hit me...

Walt told Skylar he was robbing a train when she asked about the dirt on his knees right after she suggested he was "burying a body."

Well, when those news reports hit about a missing child who likes to ride his dirtbike near the train tracks in the middle of nowhere... well, you just KNOW she's going to put that together. We've seen Skylar surfing the Net before when reading about Gus's death.

If she finds out Walt was involved in the murder of a child... that might be enough to put her over the edge.

 

I'm thinking this incident is what prompts either Skylar or Jesse to roll on Walt.

 

And then Walt will have to kill her.

 

The thing we don't really know is how long the kid was sitting there. Because of the sound of the train and then the subsequent sounds and such of the pumping of the water and the Methalymine, it's entirely possible the kid had been in the vicinity for a long time. It looks like he just rolled up on them at the end but it's not outrageous to think that they didn't notice him until after the fact.

I think we all know that things are going to come to a head with Walt and Jesse, Walt and Skyler and Walt and Hank. I'm of the opinion that the rest of this season will be about putting some sort of finishing stroke on Walt vs. Mike and the Lydia situation and then some sort of cliffhanger involving Jesse or Skyler leading into a very family oriented final 8 episodes.