Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

Considering that Jesse's $5 million fit in two large gym bags, I'd say the pile was definitely in the high eight figures.

 

From your link $80 mil is about right and is cut to $40 mil with the splite between Walt and Todd. Jesus.
So, does Walt figure out that Hank knows his secret right off the bat in the "season" opener next year. So many possibilities, I don't have a clue as to what Gilligan and Co. will do. I all I do know is it takes at least nine months for them to wrap it up.

 

Nowhere in the show did it say that Todd was an equal partner (with equal pay). I'm guessing he gets a fraction of the profit, not 50 percent.

 

He even said to Walt at one point "we'll talk about pay when I get this right." I'm guessing he gets a nice chunk, but not the multi-millions Walt is getting.

 

I just read an article where Gilligan said the scripts aren't even written for the final eight episodes. So, it's not like the final episodes are coming anytime soon... I'm not sure if they've said when they'll air, but my guess is it won't be until next summer.

Time to get ready for Homeland... I hope it's better than Season 2 of Boss has been. It's not bad, but it's not as good as it was...

 

I got that from watching them divide the money in the montage. It looked like they were splitting the money evenly, so that's how I came up with the split. Todd probably isn't a 50/50 money partner, but it was never clear after they started hitting the cooks hard. Either way, it's a shitload of money.

@ Steak - can you post that link? I saw an interview with Aaron Paul and he said all breaks loose in the final season and I believed that they had wrapped shooting. I've heard both now, so I just want to know what's what.

 

Lydia cut herself in for 30 percent during the diner scene. No way is Todd getting close to even that amount, let alone 50 percent or an equal partnership with Walt.
Jesse was a partner. Even in full-on Heisenberg mode, Walt knows how capable a cook Jesse is and how valuable he was to the entire operation. Todd is an employee (albeit, probably a well-paid one) whose gooey corpse would end up in a barrel if he even thought about suggesting an equal share of the profits.

 

The bigger question for me going forward is whether or not Walt is really out.

If he is out, legitimately out, I question how Hank could actually get anything on him. The "WW" inscription, while a nice moment for Hank to finally realize the truth, isn't actual evidence of anything. If Walt is out, the only thing I could see Hank going after is the money and, even then, you're gonna have a hard time getting enough probable cause on a former high school chemistry teacher turned car wash owner to get a warrant to check that storage locker. So, if Walt is out, truly out, how would Hank prove anything?

I suppose he could get Jesse to roll on him but Jesse is out as well so there would be no incentive for him to do that. I suppose he could get Skyler but Skyler isn't going to rat on Walt at this point, not with how deep she's gotten in the operation. Who does that leave? Lydia? Perhaps. But what incentive would she have to rat on Walt if she's a 30-percent partner? Plus, she's scared to death of him. Same for Todd.

Only way I can see this going down is if Walt isn't actually out and at the very least supervises the cooks. Other than that, Hank's got nothing.

 

Hank's realization isn't evidence by itself, but it's enough to start his wheels spinning. He probably knows things -- maybe scraps of evidence from some of Walt's crimes -- that Walt might not even know. He also now knows that just about everything Walt has told him for the past year and a half is bullshit. So, he can start looking at the car wash not as a family business, but as the money laundering operation it is. That's a starting point. Start investigating that, and something will shake out of it.

Don't forget two other facts, too:
1) Hank is a damn good detective. He turned a stray napkin into the key piece of evidence to uncover the biggest meth ring in New Mexico. Now that he knows where to look, he certainly has the ability to take pieces of evidence that he overlooked before, the scuttlebutt on the street and his own knowledge of Walt's activities to find some angle of attack.
2) Hank is a sneaky bastard. It wouldn't be above him to use some subterfuge to get Walt to tell him something important, probably without Walt even realizing it.

 

Also, I don't think there's any way Walt is actually out. He wanted to run his own empire, and now he does. He's not giving that up so easily.

 

Hank also directly benefited from Walt's profits even if it was unknowingly.

 

One thing Hank knows, I just remembered, is that that the meth equipment he found at the cook sight from way back in the first season was "stolen" from Walt's high school chemistry lab. I suspect those masks and stuff are still in an evidence locker somewhere, though nothing came of the investigation at the high school except the pot bust on that poor janitor. That's a place to restart a proper case, if he has the inclination to.