5.01: “Live Free or Die”
5.02: “Madrigal”
5.03: “Hazard Pay”
5.04: “Fifty One”
5.05 “Dead Freight”
5.06 “Buyout”
5.07 “Say My Name”
5.08 “Gliding Over All”
Like usual, I can’t wait! I honestly don’t have any theories as to what is going to happen in the show; if I did, they’d all turn wrong in the best possible way anyway.
I wonder if this episode focuses either on Jesse’s feelings of guilt and anger, or on past killings that catch up with Jesse and Heisenberg. The title “rabid dog,” is an interesting callback to–and intensification of–the term “problem dog,” used by Jesse to describe Gale in Season 4.
From the title, I’m going to make the incredibly risky prediction that at least one person will die in this episode.
Well, somebody or some thing clearly prevents Jesse from flicking his Bic. I’m guessing that would be Walt showing up at the house with his popsicle gun. What happens next is anybody’s guess, but it would be a perfect opportunity for Walt to dispense with the ‘Jesse problem’ while giving himself plausible deniability for his actions.
Bonus question: what would happen if you discharged a firearm in an enclosed area filled with gasoline vapor?
Here’s my prediction, ten minutes before show time: Jessie is going to find Walt Jr. at home maybe even with the baby there as well. This will be the first exchange we’ve seen between Jessie and Junior with Walt Jr. asking him what the hell he’s doing.
Walt Sr. will burst in and Jessie will force him to confess everything there on the spot in front of his son or he will set the house ablaze.
Not sure where things go from there but that’s how I see the episode starting off.
Skyseinberg!
I knew the guy by Walt would turn out to be random…
Well, nothing happened like I predicted. I figured when Jesse started the video, the show would end. Then I thought when he walked towards Walt it would end.
I was really surprised to see Gomez at Hank’s house, so I guess he did call him in.
I’m confused about the therapy session, I assume there going somewhere with that, otherwise it was just a waste of 5 minutes.
As for the meet with Walt, when they bugged Jesse, I assumed Walt would have a bug detector/scanner since Saul told Walt to get one last week since it was a lot easier then checking his wheel wells every day.
Poor Jesse. He picks a horrible father figure in Walt, who manipulates him at every turn, and then he winds up with Hank, who doesn’t care if he lives or dies. He can’t catch a break.
The story has gotten a little circuitous here. Hank had Jesse an episode ago, but it took his escape and a bunch of other stuff for him to figure out what happened with the poison and then go right back to Hank again. And now Jesse has apparently improvised some other plan to get Walt. I think I’m glad- having him wear a wire seemed a little too straightforward. But it was interesting that Jesse talked about Walt’s luck (he’s had a lot of it) and now it sounds like he’s in trouble because of some bad luck- Jesse mistaking that bald guy for some hired goon.
That was yet another one of Breaking Bad’s Macbeth-y scenes. (“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”) What Skyler said was right logically, but it would require Walt to admit that his relationship with Jesse is irretrievably broken and that he can’t talk his way out of this problem. Walt will do almost anything before he does that. So now we have a week to wonder about Jesse’s scheme and if Walt is asking Uncle Jack to kill Jesse or if he has something else in mind. So… where does Walt really live?
I didn’t think about that during the scene, but I did think that it was unusually dumb of Walt to have someone standing that close to him and being that obvious about watching him.
Jesse’s change of plans seemed to be triggered by the image Walt sitting alone on that bench. What did that remind him of? Was it something we’ve seen before? Seemed like a clue.
No kidding, she really turned.
Jesse’s change of plans was because of the scary looking bald dude wearing all black standing nearby.
Yeah, I know that scared him off, but what was the ‘better way’ that popped into his head?
Also, anyone think they’re setting up Marie to sacrifice herself for those kids?
And why didn’t that shrink simply whip out his guitar and cheer her up with some tunes?
Tune in next week.
The change of plan is just as well- I have no idea if Walt’s confession would have been usable at a trial. Even if the recording itself is legal, I don’t think any of what Hank is doing is legal.
Shouldn’t Jesse have begun that tape by stating his name and the date? Maybe Hank never had any intention of using it in court.
I doubt you actually have to do that. I think the cops just like it. Whether the tape gets used in court or just an investigation, there are rules here. Hank is now kind of running his own mini-DEA with no oversight, including trying to get a secret informant to record a conversation with a suspect without a warrant. I’m not a lawyer but I have a feeling Saul could get all of this thrown out of court pretty easily. I say that not as a plot point but because Hank’s obsession with catching Walt probably isn’t going to turn out so well. Hank looked like a caring hero for about 20 minutes there, but things got darker in a hurry.
I think at this point Hank just wants to get enough on Walt to prove to his superiors that Walt’s fake confession is a lie, so that he can get a proper investigation started on Walt.
He’s not trying to get a proper investigation started. He’s trying to nail Walt all by himself, and from a certain point of view that looks even worse because he’s trying to keep the DEA in the dark. Even if he somehow disproves every word Walt says, his career will still be over when he tells them about this.