And it may have had something to do with his explosive outburst at the end of the episode. If Walt and Jesse reconcile it will be because Walt admits to him that his cancer has come back and that he has only months to live.
Can someone tell me what a car wash needs you to give to your “car care professional”? (Which I assume means “mechanic”)
Probably when you order services a ticket is generated, you take the ticket to the guy who cleans your car and he does what is on the work ticket.
Ever been to a Steak Escape fast food place? You order with the cashier and they give you a meal ticket, you take it to the line worker who prepares your sandwich based on what is on the ticket. Same concept I would guess.
At the car wash I use, I drive up and tell the attendant what sort of wash I want, he gives me a receipt. I take that inside and pay the cashier (i.e., Skyler). She gives me another receipt to show that I paid and I give that to the guy (i.e., the “car care professional”) at the end when I pick up the car. In other words, by using the term car care professional instead of car wash flunky, she’s attempting to elevate the experience of using her car wash.
Oh, thanks!! I’ve only ever been to drive-through car washes, where you pay as you’re driving in. There’s no getting out of the car and no “cashier” as it were.
For some reason I figured people were paying after their car washes.
Agreed. It’s just a claim ticket showing that you’ve already paid for your car wash. “Care care professional” is sort of like “household engineer” for housewife. Sounds better than “the guy who waves the towel or honks the horn when your car is done.”
How is Walt going to convince Skyler he is not in any danger? He can’t tell her he just got in a fight with a coworker; he already used that line when Mike beat him up. Skyler almost ran away after “I am the one who knocks.” If Skyler gets scared, will she run to the police? To Hank? Or is she in too deep herself now?
And how is Skyler going to explain to Walt about the cash she’s presumably going to give Beneke? That won’t go well, even if it helps with the money laundering. Walt hasn’t forgotten Beneke.
I wrote that off by guessing that Walt doesn’t have any idea what the actual bank balance is or should be at any given moment and, if he’s bringing in $7 million a year, will he really notice $600K?
I’m thinking Walt is honey badger. Honey badger don’t give a shit.
Walt would really have to fuck up the conversation with Jesse to end up with Jesse blaming him for Jane’s death. His sin was not saving her in the tiny time window while she was drowning. Even if Jesse figures out that Walt was there at some time while they slept, it’s still a long leap to the conclusion that he watched her die.
I’m watching S3 now on DVD, and I noticed something I had forgotten: Jesse can cook, and has picked up some rudimentary chemistry from Walt. Granted, he’ still doing the RV cook (in S3), but IIRC, by the end of S3 and so far into S4, he’s still watching and learning. And due to Walt’s vanity, I’m sure he’s always rattling off factoids and tidbits, like, “The Hyperfullerene Chloride must be 99.7% pure and exposed to air with not less that 80% relative humidity for no more than 1 minute at a time,” or some stuff.
There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with Jesse’s intelligence or memory; he’s just never really developed it or applied himself. Until recently.
He may be able to go down to Mexico and do the thing.
I liked this show originally because the concept of a genuinely smart guy engaging in criminal activity (and doing so in a rational thoughtful manner) is a premise that appeals to me, but Walt has been so determinedly self-destructive and randomly idiotic (i.e. wasting a day chasing down a fly, closing his eyes while speeding along a highway, trashing that orange Mustang on a whim) that I’m losing interest in him and now Gus is my favourite. Frankly, if he kills Walt and becomes the main character, I’d keep watching and consider it an improvement.
As for the money laundering stuff, I figured Gus owned the laundry in addition to the chicken restaurants and it kinda baffled me that Walt didn’t get a “job” for Gus in that capacity - I could imagine a chemist on the staff of an industrial laundry, getting paid a low six-figure salary, and it would explain, if anyone was curious, why Walt drives there every day.
Skyler’s former boss/lover, Ted, could (I expect) work out a deal with the IRC for installment payments, giving them, say, $5000/week for three years, which would spare them the need to make up huge new accounts to account for an equally huge influx of cash. Make up a number of smaller “new” (and fictional) accounts to gradually ramp up his company’s income, with Skyler working for him as an accountant (also for a low six-figure salary) and getting stock options so the money she is secretly putting into his company is gradually converted to equity, guaranteeing long-term wealth for her children. Use this equity to justify purchases of other car washes (or comparable cash-retail businesses, and I get the impression Beneke Fabricators would not qualify in this regard) to cover more laundering.
It could get complicated, but Ted clearly owes Skyler big-time and he doesn’t seem too ethically rigid so she should be able to manipulate him into helping her hide $6 million/year, for as long as it lasts. The way Walt’s behaving, it’s getting harder to believe that Gus “needs” him so badly that he’d put up with him forever.
i don’t think he did talk to her, i thought he just didn’t want to hear saul’s lecture so he got out to walk home or whatever
He can’t pay it back in installments because their position/lie is that the money wasn’t missing in the first place, that it was just an accounting error and the money was sitting collecting metaphorical dust in some account somewhere. If the money is gone, then that means they broke the law.
Would the IRS be expecting a lump-sum $675,000 payment? I’d be somewhat concerned about how Skyler and Ted would arrange that - show up at a bank carrying over half a mill in cash and get a money order? An installment scheme, even a stiff one like $60,000/month (to pay off the entire debt within a year) allows a more gradual influx of cash, and given that the auditor has bought the story that Skyler is a doofus and the accounts in disarray…
Another clip from the upcoming episode. In this one
Skyler gives Walt Jr. a car for his birthday and he acts like a teenaged prick, though admittedly it’s a come down after the previous car and a CD player isn’t that huge a boasting point in a post 1995 vehicle
[spoiler]I was expecting to be upset with Walt Jr. because I have a low tolerance for ungrateful people, but a motherfucking PT Cruiser? Jesus Christ. That’s worse than Walt’s Aztek.
Also, the writers are only dicking around with us now, giving Walt Jr. lines like, “I’ll just have pancakes.” [/spoiler]
Everyone is talking like Jane is some poor little innocent girl. She was behind a plot to fuck walk over and take all of the money!
Agreed. And, I think the period at the end of the Jane story was the planes crashing. Walt let her die, because it conveniently solved his problem. His selfishness in that regard culminated in a spectacular tragedy that he, himself, figured out was a domino effect of that very selfish (in)action.
I’d rather they not really fold any of that back in, and it doesn’t appear that they are. It was more to toss Jessie into a depressed, self-destructive spiral. And, ironically, Walt seems blind to it. He saw the destruction he caused all around him, and even keeps a memento mori (teddy bear eye) of it, and yet, he only keeps raking Jesse over the coals, fanning his flames with each nasty deed Walt requests to save their asses, until Jesse finally discovered Walt crossed a line by spying on him and kicked Walt’s ass.
I dunno. Walt’s being a huge asshole this season, but in light of his cancer, their situation, having to kill Gale (via Jesse), and knowing he should’ve saved Jane… Perhaps Walt is taking his guilt out on Jesse in the form of condescension and anger. The man’s an absolute mess, I hope this was a wake up call. We need the old Walt back and so does Walt.
Anyhow, I’m very curious to see how this all shakes out.
Two things about the Jane incident and its aftermath:
First, was Walt aware, at the time, of the consequence of Jane sleeping on her back instead of on her side?
Second, the ATC authorities are responsible for ensuring the occupational fitness of its controllers. Sort of like sobriety checks for pilots etc. Walt can be held responsible for rendering the father unfit, but it was the ATC’s job to check his readiness.