No, the Hombre only had the one Black Death bullet. They made a point of showing him putting it in his pocket. The Hombre reloaded a clip at one point and the Black Death bullet fell out onto the ground where Hank found it.
Oh God! That’s where I recognized him from. The McPoyle’s are so damn creepy that I really wish I didn’t know where he was from now.
And for all you Flight of the Conchords fans, the actor that plays Gale is Doug, Mel’s husband.
I guess you’re right. I was just assuming they took more from the dealer, but now that I think about it they just walked out with the vests, didn’t they?
Great episode, but you know, I’m going to sort of miss the twins. Hope the writers come up with some interesting replacement bad-asses.
The way the gunfight was playing out; I thought there for a moment we were going to see one of the cousins point a gun at hank just as he gets blasted by Mike. I like the way this turned out much better.
According to a spoiler site that’s pretty reliable, Hank lives (no surprise) but with severe physical problems, and the remaining twin lives but loses either his legs or their use and I’m sure is not out of the game.
He can get matching wheelchairs to go with his uncle’s!
I wonder if Jesse will be a suspect in the attempted murder. Obviously he wasn’t one of the hit men but the attempted murder happened just after he dropped the charges, he had the motive to want Hank dead, and the fact he recently bought a $800,000 house without any observable means of income would imply to the DEA he’s a lot better connected than he really is.
Huh, well that’s brilliant. Would certainly force Jesse’s hand (re: giving up Heisenberg) if they want to pin it on him.
Hmmm, great theory. Add to it another mystery cell phone call like the one that Jesse used* to distract Hank from the RV…
*We know it was Walt’s idea, but as far as Hank and the DEA, it was Jesse or someone connected with him.
I thought the elevator scene was one of the tenderest sweetest husband-wife scenes ever on television.
Unless of course he was coming down from the second floor in which case it’s just evidence of really rapid cycling.
Stop it! I just took a slug of water!!!
So I was thinking that Walt setup Gale (the lab assistant) by giving him the wrong temp simply to get him fired (or reassigned) so he could bring Jesse in to keep an eye on him. But that may not quite be it.
Gus assumed that Walt would be better off with a qualified, intelligent assistant and not the more scatterbrained Pinkman. But it’s shown that Gale was super organized and competant, already having done the prep work when Walt came to work, and Walt may have been a little annoyed. It seems like he likes having someone around who makes him feel superior, rather than having an almost equal. Gale’s competance may have hurt Walt’s ego.
I thought that too. At the least, it appeared that Walt may have given Gale the wrong temperature and didn’t want to admit it. Walt and his ego, ya know.
Sampiro, at first I thought your idea of Jesse as a suspect in Hank’s shooting was kinda out there, but the more I think on it, I agree it’s a great theory. The DEA will assume Jesse’s connected, and that dropping the charges was a ruse to show that he didn’t hold a grudge.
But is there a chance the DEA will think that dropping the charges means Hank and Jesse are connected? That Hank and Jesse made a deal, and Jesse reneged?
There’s so many ways this can go.
I have to say, those last few scenes were expertly done. It seemed like it was going to be the “retirony” trope played perfectly straight. I mean, he actually used the phrase “I think everything is going to be alright”. I was sure he was going to have a bullet hole in his head as soon as those words left his mouth.
What was awesome for me about the one minute scene is that I was actually on the edge of my seat. The way this show is, who knows how the tension is going to resolve. I absolutely love how it’s so unpredictable. (Well, except last week I said there’d be an attempt on Hank’s life that he would survive, but they way it’s written you doubt yourself when you’re watchin’ it go down!) I rarely, if ever, get this engaged in any drama anymore, whether on tv or the movies. You can always see where it’s going.
Plus, the actor (who’s name I should know) did a simply outstanding job portraying terror. I really, really believed it. Great job.
Regarding Walt and Gale… I think that Walt intentionally gave Gale the wrong info so that he COULD fire him. I still think it would be cool if Walt unintentionally saved himself from being spied on by Gus (through Gale). It’s not like it’d be the first time that Walt narrowly avoided trouble by accident!
Gus doesn’t need anyone to spy on Walt to get the formula. When Walt starts dying he could just ask him or threaten his family to get it. I don’t think it would be too much trouble.
Now that Jessie is cooking with Walt, Gus could easily offer Jessie a job once Walt dies. It’s not like Jessie has any other plans.
Of course, this was it. When you take into account how meticulous were both Walt and Gale (who took notes) in the lab, it had to be a ruse on Walt’s part to justify canning Gale so he could hire Jessie. Getting Jessie as a partner solved a lot of problems for Walt – (1) get a wild card off the streets who could give him up as Heisenberg, (2) let him keep an eye on Jessie, and (3) get Jessie off Hank’s back. It cost him $1.5 million, but that was the price he was willing to pay. As to all the conjecture on who called Hank to tip him off about the hit, it had to be Gus (or his henchman). He had the knowledge and the motivation. If the brothers had finished off Hank, guess who those two psychos would’ve gone after next? Walt, of course. And that would derail Gus’ plans for Walt. And I’m pretty sure that the DEA will connect the hit attempt on Hank to his killing of Tuco since the brothers are related to him. No way they’ll pin it on Jessie (but I could be wrong!).
I think Walt seriously erred in asking Gale to be replaced with Jessie. Gus is going to be majorly pissed.
He already doesn’t like Jessie- knows him as a junkie and he’s of the “once a junkie always a junkie” mindset. In the second place, he’s correctly pegged Jessie as an arrogant whining irresponsible dumbass. Next up it means that Gale is running around with Gus’s MAJOR secrets and nothing to do- would anyone here sell life insurance to Gale right now? Then there’s the notion of who would you rather have hold you over a barrel if Walt should die- Jessie or Gale?
Both Gus and Saul are of the “things would be better if Jessie accidentally shot himself a few times while falling off a mesa onto a land mine variety”. Truth be known I think Walt is of the same mindset, which is why he was so offended when Saul voiced it (without exactly voicing it)- it had occurred to him. However, he hasn’t done murder yet- well, not cold blooded murder anyway (the guy in the basement was proactive self defense and Tuco [who Hank killed but Walt tried] needed killin’ if ever anyone did) and he knows that’s the point of no return.
The surprising thing to me about Don Salamanca (aka Tio the dinging crimeboss [aka the Mexican Community Theater version of Christopher Pike] ) is that he would take Tuco’s death so hard. Yes, I get that he was a nephew and whatever th equivalent of a made-man is in the Mexican cartel, but even his uncle had to realize he was a loose cannon and had totally gone Pesci, making him unreliable and a liability to his own employers.
Maybe he’s old school in that he felt he should be handled Pesci-style (in Goodfellas and Casino it’s done in-house). Of course in last night’s episode when you see him back when he still could speak and move we learn that Tio wasn’t quite all there himself, so maybe he saw himself in Tuco, though I can’t imagine Tuco living to sit in a back yard and have a rational conversation. (Gus must have had a “Free chicken fingers for everybody” special when he learned Tuco was dead.)