Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

Stan is deservedly a fan favorite, but he's no more central to the story of Mad Men than Huell is to Breaking Bad.

 

That's my exact point. But we've seen Ferguson act. We've seen him deliver in challenging scenes, whether he's frustrated with Peggy or playing drunk or stoned or just being creative. Mad Men leans on a deep cast for tough scenes.

Huell hasn't done shit besides be enormous and black. And for the record, Marie's kleptomania was part of the worst part of Season 2, and Betsy Brandt struggled to pull it off convincingly. Those scenes with her and Skyler fighting were probably the worst thing Breaking Bad has ever done.

 

Couple of things I think about the final 7.
Walt will not kill Jesse. Nor have him killed. He just won't.
Lydia and Todd will figure prominently in what happens (there's really no one left)
Walter Jr. will die in that fancy car Walt bought him.

One question, where did Walt Jr.'s "Flynn" nickname come from. It's not his middle name. Is it kind of like Hurley on Lost?

 

That seems too unrelated to our central case to happen this late in the game. But Breaking Bad is good at surprises.

 

That's kind of the point with Huell. He's enormous and black, but he's not intimidating at all. He's a lazy, mostly incompetent piece of crap. He's not nearly as menacing as Mike, Gus, Walt or any number of people on the show, nor is he supposed to be.
I thought Marie's best parts were after Hank's injury and she was trying to pull him back up. She did well with that (remember the "if the groundhog sees his shadow..." scene?). I've no special love for her, but I don't think she's been terrible. She's just a harmless side player.

 

I feel like you guys are making my point for me.

 

My prediction:

Walt brutally kills Hank in a very public manner under the pseudonym Heisenberg. After the killing, law enforcement discovers Hank's findings and Walt's identity is exposed in the media. Walt flees his family. Skyler and the kids bail on the house (this will be the end of their direct involvement with Walt) and go into hiding. Walt Jr. will go into a deep depression once Skyler reveals all. Perhaps Skyler may even have to kill him to keep him from talking to the cops.

Needing cash to stay afloat and ahead of the law, Walt goes back in the business of cooking again. His cancer goes back into remission a second time. Walt will try to get Jesse back in loop, but that will prove impossible. Jesse will be arrested. He will make bail and Walt will go after him with the poison. Jesse will die.

FBI pressure will jack up after the Jesse death. Walt will hastily try to get back to his family, but this will all fall apart. Skyler will get arrested after Marie finds out where the family is. Walt makes his way over to Europe after it all goes to shit and Interpol catches up with him. He will be arrested and thrown into some shithole Czech prison where he will face international drug trafficking charges.

On that note, I think zero percent of this will be right.

 

On the acting: I feel as if the cast of Breaking Bad does its best acting when it's not speaking. Those scenes where nothing was said last night were absolutely captivating. I can remember many of those with Cranston that really stood out, as with Norris.

On Walt, Jr. dying: I can see that happening, especially how he asked if he could stay out after curfew in the latest episode. Maybe he crashes his car or a drunk driver hits him.

 

That's some crazy shit. There is no chance Skyler kills her own son. None. Absolutely no way.

 

The thing is - it's never been about the money for Walt and Skyler. Maybe it would have been if they could have spent more of it, moved to a bigger house etc and flaunted their wealth without raising suspicion - but since the money has been more of a burden than anything else, their motivation is probably mostly about staying out of jail. I don't get the sense they Walt or Skyler would be especially shamed either if they went into the hole. Walt's major motivation is showing everyone how smart he is. Skyler wants to keep the family together (I guess, though judging how frequently she pawns the kids off to her sister maybe not).

 

If I had to make a prediction on everyone's fate here, I'll go with this:

Hank starts putting everything together and gathering evidence on Walt one piece at a time but finds out he can't do anything because Walt's drug money was used for his recovery. Hank beats the holy hell out of his wife out of frustration and decides to punish Walt in a different way.
In doing so, he leans on an already unstable Jesse to turn on Walt but Jesse won't do it. Hank starts to plant the seed in Jesse's head about the fact that Walt is far worse than even he can imagine, speculating that perhaps Walt had something to do with the poisoning and with his girlfriend's OD.
Jesse knows there's no concrete evidence but he can't shake the feeling Walt was involved and confronts him. The confrontation, while not proving Walt was involved in both of these incidents, leaves Jesse knowing he was.
Jesse decides to turn Walt in and goes to Hank to reveal all.
Feeling threatened, Walt begins following him, setting up a confrontation between all three of them where Walt kills Hank and Marie in cold blood in front of Jesse.
Try as he can, though, he can't kill Jesse and Jesse flees. Walt hurts himself and sets Jesse up to take the fall for the murders.
Over time, Skylar figures out Walt killed Hank and Marie, trashes the house, and after a massive fight where she and him physically attack each other outside their house, takes the kids and leaves.
Walt, having lost his family, leaves the car business and goes on a search for Jesse to shut down the final loose end.
Jesse and Walt have a final showdown in the desert where it all began but, instead of the gun battle Walt was expecting, Walt is greeted with the police and DEA, who Jesse have revealed everything to.
Walt, knowing his cancer is back full time and wanting to go out a "legend" pussies out when faced with a Scarface-type final battle and instead of the grand exit he thinks he deserves, he takes the easy way out by smoking a cigarette with the ricin in it, dying in the back of a police car at the hands of the very science that gave him his grandiose personality in the first place.
Jesse rots in prison for his role in everything but finds peace knowing, in a small way, he helped put down Heisenberg.

 

Ricin takes several days to work, right? Wasn't that the point?

There are all sorts of poisons that would make for effective quick kills, but ricin is virtually untraceable and takes days, making it seem like a regular sickness so that poison isn't even suspected.