I was trying to figure out how long it’s been since Hank’s shooting and whether he’d realistically be walking (even with assistance) by now.
And it wasn’t even with his dad or at the house! That kid is versatile.
Holy shit, that was amazing. I especially liked Hank’s slick delivery of the whole Pollos / Gale story, ramping it up while holding his prime evidence until the very end:
“Yep, you’re right - this is a totally crazy theory, and I’m leaping to all kinds of conclusions, except… what are Gus Fring’s fingerprints doing in Gale Boetticher’s apartment?”
The gauntlet has been thrown, motherfuckers.
As an aside: does anyone know what game Jesse was playing at the beginning? I didn’t even know they still had console games that used light guns. The last time I played one it was Duck Hunt on the Atari.
My prediction (and I’m almost always wrong) is that Walt’s ultimate punishment will be formed more along Twilight Zone (original series) morality. Walt won’t die—everybody and everything he holds dear will die or be destroyed. His entire family will be killed and Walt be will be the lone survivor. His cancer will go into complete remission, and he’ll spend the rest of a normal lifespan in WITSEC, tortured by the consequences of his actions. If he does die, it will be by his own hand. Remember, he did try to blow his head off in the very first episode, and somehow even managed to fuck that up.
According to this page on the timeline, Hank was shot 4 weeks before the end of Season 3. (He was shot in the episode “One Minute”.) So now add to that the amount of time passed since the end of Season 3 — which we’ll have to figure out ourselves since that website doesn’t cover Season 4.
But doesn’t Walt mention that very figure in the most recent episode? Seems to me he said, in his conversation with Jesse, that it’s been a month or so since Gus killed Victor — but I don’t remember that bit well enough.
Anyway, looks like it’s been approximately 2 or 3 months between Hank’s shootout and his current state of partially walking. That does seem a little unrealistic.
Yeah, see, I didn’t buy that part. Totally unbelievable for his character. Lunch eating! Bah.
Unless, maybe, he ordered cereal and I didn’t notice? That must have been it.
The title had “Rage” in it, but I didn’t catch the whole thing.
And they tried shooting a version with Jesse playing “Duck Hunt”, interspersed with flashes of Gale’s head being blown away, but it just didn’t have the right effect.
Not really. We saw Gus bringing food for the agents last season, and last night we see the photo of Merket and Gus shaking hands. I can easily accept DEA moles.
They should have been more excited at Hank’s reveal, even without the fingerprint.
If the DEA doesn’t go after Gus, do you see any chance that Hank will share this with Walt? “I’m so frustrated – I give them all this evidence that Fring is a major dealer, and they don’t do shit!” Would Walt try to help Hank? Hank wouldn’t be able to know, of course, but can you see Walt trying to use the DEA to get rid of Gus? How would he do that? If Walt Jr. was working at the restaurant, Walt could tell Hank that Walt Jr. saw something suspicious.
Farfetched, but Walt Jr. seemed excited about being offered a job, and he does need to make some money to buy a car.
You know, for some reason I took the whole job offer as just a throwaway line, but it definitely could lead to some interesting plot developments.
There’s also the question of why Gus would make such an offer. Maybe he wants Walt to know that he has his son nearby and could easily disappear him, or perhaps frame him for stealing from the cash register or something.
It would be difficult for Walt to refuse to let Jessie work at the restaurant. What possible rationale does a father have for not letting his teenage son work at an actual job?
Jr. Though Jesse working at the restaurant would make for an interesting turn of events.
I would have to assume they [the parents] would flat out refuse it. At least now they can use the ‘we want you to work at the family business’ excuse and he probably won’t question it.
Maybe he’ll end up dying from ricin poisoning (which would assume this 2nd ricin plot fails, and the law of threes and all that…)
Or what if the ricin ends up killing someone close to Walt? Jr does eat a lot, as may have been mentioned once or twice around here.
Doh! :smack: Well, it was obvious I meant Walt Jr., not Jessie.
Walt would obviously object, but I don’t think Skyler has a clue about Gus or Los Pollos Hermanos. That could make for even more tension between the two of them. Walt suddenly wanting Jr. to work at the car wash (in order to keep him away from a criminal enterprise) and Skyler not wanting him at the car wash (in order to keep him away from a criminal enterprise) and not understanding Walt’s insistence on him working there rather than at the chicken restaurant.
I wondered about the ricin in the burger last season. It was just dumped in the trash on the street, and what homeless person could resist an untouched burger? You don’t let antifreeze spill on your driveway, and you don’t dump poisoned food on the street. That’s just good citizenship.
Junior can’t work at the car wash. What excuse would Skyler have for not giving him the combination to the safe?
I didn’t even think about that. I would hope he wouldn’t come clean about Gus but maybe just something vague along the lines of “Los Pollos Hermanos is involved in some aspects of the enterprise” and leave it at that. Hopefully Skyler will understand that she’s not really supposed to dig any deeper and she’ll agree that Jr shouldn’t be working for them.
I didn’t know the combination to the safe where I work (my dad’s business) until I had been there a few years. On the one hand, I didn’t do any office work, I didn’t need to know it. On the other hand…I didn’t really care. I was out in the store stocking shelves and unloading trucks, it never crossed my mind. If they have Jr out on the register or selling car washes as the cars come in, he won’t need to know it. Also, in a situation like that, they likely have to safes. That looked like one for the office. There’s probably another safe for the money that comes in from the daily business.
A few weeks ago I predicted that Walt Jr. will somehow go to work at Los Pollos Hermanos. It was fun speculating on all the ways that could complicate things and/or lead to Hank making the connection.
This may be a stupid question, but why did Walt blow up the car?
Just an opinion based on nothing special, but I think he was just going all out to destroy that car no matter what it took. An adrenaline rush, a natural high. Partly out of anger at Skyler, partly out of repressed rage, partly because it was fun just to tear the thing up.
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I think they were worried because Hank nearly got himself fired and killed going after Hiedenreich. He was obsessed. Before the fingerprint, they were seeing very circumstantial evidence that probably would not have even warranted a covert surveillance warrant. It’s only with the fingerprint that his theories become actionable.
Good points. Why wouldn’t Skyler give him the combination?
I think she said something to Walt like “we can’t keep it here” during the discussion about there being too much money. So maybe they won’t keep an unexplainable amount at the car wash, or maybe they’ll have a second safe hidden there that Jr. wouldn’t know about.
The business with dropping the poisoned burger in the trash is interesting. The writers do seem to think far ahead and have reasons for the things they do (the Walt Whitman quote is a good example).
Suppose, unbeknownst to us (or any of the characters) some homeless person ate that burger, or suppose it was two people, maybe a couple. Then, they both died at around the same time from similar symptoms. A coroner might find it suspicious that two young people living together on the street both died of a heart attack (or whatever) at the same time and might have investigated further and discovered that it was caused by ricin.
So now, local authorities are on the lookout for ricin, so what would otherwise pass for a case of the flu followed by a heart attack in an overworked businessman is investigated further…
“Would you like fries with that, bitch?”
We haven’t touched on what Jesse said at the 12-step meeting, about doing terrible things and forgiving yourself, moving on, no repercussions.
It looks like Jesse thinks he needs to be punished. How will that play out?
Jesse isn’t as delusional as Walt. Walt can rationalize all the terrible things he’s done, Jesse can’t.
It’s somewhat interesting that Walt is upset because no one will give him credit for all his terrible deeds; yet Jesse is getting plenty of credit, but wants people to hate him for what he’s done.
Most of Walt’s actions recently have been driven by him feeling emasculated by his wife. So when she told him that she talked the car dealership manager into accepting a return of the car, and that he shouldn’t try to discuss it further with them, he felt humiliated. So destroying the car was his way of telling her off. As was the scene in which he gave her $274,000 to launder, and when she said that it was too much to explain in a car wash, he basically said, do you want to do this or not.