My take on the four-corners coin flip: Skyler, pissed at Walt, grabbed the baby and aimed to leave him and Walt Jr.; her coin flip (toss, actually) was to determine in which direction to head. As she was tossing, she had second thoughts and couldn’t bring herself to follow through on it; that’s why she dragged it back to AZ.
Although, I do wonder if she would leave Jr.
Also, buying a $300 bottle of champagne seems to me like a perfectly normal act after purchasing a bidness.
Finally: I loved this episode except for two things: No Hank and no Saul (although no Marie was a bonus).
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My two favorite visuals: the shoutout to the scar in the shower, and the “shovel-cam.”
BTW, Skyler should’ve known better to start that conversation at that time. My wife and I both know not to start an argument right after waking the other one up with a hangover.
From a practical standpoint, somebody’s gonna have to get rid of the bodies. They already had the two bodies from the truck to deal with. Adding three more – that’s a lot of work, for somebody. You’d need a backhoe, unless you were gonna just dump 'em in the desert.
It seems completely unnecessary to kill them. They are not going to tell anyone down in Bolivia. And they are not the only ones who know about the operation anyways.
Something I was thinking about while typing in another thread. When Hank starts piecing this all together. At some point, I think it’s all going to come back to the handful of lab equipment that was missing from his classroom back in season 1.
It would be cool if that worked, but I think all the stolen equipment (other than the mask that the DEA picked up) was crushed along with the RV, which Hank can tie only to Jesse.
Not necessarily as physical evidence. I just mean that when Hank starts piecing this together, at some point he’ll be on the fence probably with a lot of circumstantial evidence. A lot of stuff that just sort of makes sense and fits together. Maybe he thinks about the money they have, maybe he’s been noticing Hank’s odd hours or saw his car at the chicken place (or the laundry place). The type of stuff that is pretty meaningless when it comes to an FBI investigation, the type of stuff that any other agent wouldn’t even bat an eye at, but Hank might, for just a minute be thinking “Could it…nah, couldn’t be him, doesn’t make sense, maybe it is him, they have all that money…but he’s such a pussy” but then Hank will remember the lab equipment and think “Son of a bitch, it WAS him, all along”
That’s what I mean, not that it’s going to be the landmark piece of evidence in the court case against him, just more of a slap in the face to Hank when he realizes that if he hadn’t let this slide earlier in the series he could have stopped it before it started.
Hank found some flasks early in the first season that were used to manufacture meth. They had “property of Walt’s school (whatever)” written on them. Since Walt’s the only one with the keys to the closet in which they’re stored, Hank chided him for letting his guard down and letting one of his students borrow the keys.
And of course, Badger gave the DEA a description of Heisenberg that closely matches Walt’s physical character. He may have dismissed it as a total fabrication after Saul’s fall-guy took the rap the first time, but if he catches Walt’s scent, it’s no doubt something that he’ll remember.
It wasn’t just Walt who had keys to that closet, or storage room.
The custodial staff had keys as well, and in fact one of the janitors ends up going to jail because of the missing equipment, indirectly — though the charge is over marijuana found later at his home, not anything related to meth. (If I recall correctly.)
Anyway, it’s that arrest of the wrong man that saves Walt’s ass in that episode, turning whatever suspicion there might have been away from him.