I need convincing that the dead woman is the woman from the bus. She’s the same woman who had the little shed with the shrine?
Five percent of three million dollars is 150,000. That should cover Saul for a while. Though I do agree it’s still low as hell. Perhaps Walt was making up for being overcharged on everything else previously?
Does anyone know why Saul snapped the phone in half? I assume it was just to be dramatic. I’ll go out on a limb an assume Saul has a handful of cell phones registered to fake names just for things like this but it almost seems that it would have been a better idea to: A)Drive a few miles away before making the call (GPS and all that) and B)Just leave the phone somewhere. Hopefully someone else will start using it which would throw off the DEA, at least for however long it took that person to convince them that he really did find it laying in the street.
So that there’s no possible way it can ever be connected to him.
I wondered how much of the “call Hank and say Marie’s been in an accident” idea was Saul’s. We don’t know if the whole idea was Walt’s or if he called Saul with a “we’ve gotta problem here” and they hatched it together or even if it was something Saul (who has a history of tampering with the police) had used before and said “I got an idea”.
Is it even possible to trace a cell phone call once the call has already been disconnected? (The number sure, but there’s limitless ways to get disposable untraceable-to-an-individual cell phones- I could probably do that at most convenience stores.)
I don’t think the producers/writers are going to kill off any of the characters introduced in the first episode anytime soon, so Hank (who’s also the show’s moral conscience even if he’s not the protagonist) should be safe until the last few episodes at very least.
From his character’s perspective, I think a mole in his department protecting Heisenberg is actually the most likely candidate and he would be reasonable to persue that. The Walt connecton is worth persuing too, but if the writers end up having Hank investigate his own unit, I don’t think it would portray him in a bad light at all.
That’s just the Cousins’ hide out in New Mexico. They picked a random house at an Indian reservation to hide out in.
Yeah, he would be reasonable to pursue that. The investigation would probably increase his PTSD and make him look even more unstable to his coworkers.
I got the impression that it was a tactic that Saul had used before. I thought I remembered a line from somewhere where he actually said he hated every time he had to do that (something like that?). The secretary seemed like she had done it before and hated it, too. That’s just my opinion of body language and facial expressions, but I thought there was a line about it.
You’re right, there are plenty of ways to get disposable phones, and the call can’t really be located with any precision, though the phone company would be able to tell which cell tower the call went through, giving a very rough location. He probably broke it just to ensure he wouldn’t use it for any other calls ever again, and it can be thrown away such that it can’t be turned on again if found. Easier than trying to ensure you’ve erased the call history, and there will be no way the phone company could locate it in the future, leading back to a certain dumpster, etc. etc. Leading them down a false trail is still a trail…just breaking the phone means there’s that one call and that’s it. No trail at all. Seems safer to me.
So the dead woman is a random woman – not the woman from the bus or the woman with the shrine? The shed looked like the shed that the shrine was in, but I don’t have that episode recorded so I can’t verify it.
It was in a poor desert area like the shrine, but the shrine was in Mexico. The Twins are in New Mexico now. The areas look similar because they were both in the middle of the desert. The Twins also apparently carry a picture of Walt where ever they go.
Since the Officer was checking up on the woman found killed, I don’t think it’s the same one the Twins stole the car from. It was probably some random Native American woman living there.
Any thoughts on why the episode didn’t circle back to the dead woman? Usually, they will finish up by returning to the opener. They just let it hang there that the dead Res cop will be found by the backup he called for?
By now there should be a massive manhunt since they’ve killed a cop, an old lady, and it’s possible they’ll be connected to the illegal immigrant truck murders and whoever else they’ve killed. (Good thing they’re not in Arizona- there’d have been a bloodbath by now since they’d have been stopped 20 times per day.)
The cop looked like a Native American: any chance this was on a reservation?
Not at all. You’re still seeing from the viewer’s perspective, not from Hank’s perspective.
Unless I’m forgetting something, ll Hank thinks he knows is that Jesse sold Walt some pot a while back. He has no reason in the world to think that they know each other very well and are still in touch.
That was illustrated quite nicely by Hank’s phone call to Walt asking about Jesse. I think that’s why the call was there–to show that Hank is unaware of any further connection.
Now, that’s not to say that Hank wouldn’t be able to eventually make the connection, but at this point, not figuring it out doesn’t make him seem dense or stupid. I think that there will have to be some specific reason for him to start thinking that Walt might be involved.
Come to think of it, I could see this as a possible way that Hank could start to suspect Walt–through Marie.
Skyler obviously wants to talk to someone about the situation, as is evidenced by her conversations with her lawyer. Marie would be the natural choice for someone else to talk to. Skyler probably wouldn’t come out and tell her what exactly Walt is doing, given that Hank is a DEA agent, but she could easily send the message that Walt is into something really unsavory.
After that, it would be natural for Marie to talk to Hank about her concerns, and thus for Hank to start thinking about how weird Walt has been lately. Once Hank starts thinking “what on earth could Walt, of all people, be into,” well, then it makes sense that the clues would start falling into place.
I got the same impression.
Regardless, you just know that Saul has a brain full of sneaky tactics and dirty tricks. I’ll bet he files away every idea he hears of for possible future use. In a jam? Better Call Saul!
Best ending of any individual show in the series: “Que su muerte les satisfaca.” Chilling. Hank’s gonna die. I’m gonna go ahead and set the over/under at five episodes from now. He dies on May 30th’s show.
Man, I don’t know. Didn’t they say something about not touching DEA? A DEA agent murder brings down all kind of federal attention the cartels don’t want. I think they might get close and make an attempt but Hank won’t die. I bet Hank kills one of the Hombres Sin Nombres. Will Walt make the connection with his activities? Will he see the direct line from his cooking to an attempt on Hank’s life?
Also, shouldn’t Hank me just a mite bit suspicious that shortly after he told Walt about the discovery of the RV, said RV is taken to a junkyard for permanent disposal?
I guess you didn’t notice the medallion hanging from the cop’s mirror. (On one side, a picture of some Indians and the term “Homeland Security”. On the other side, “Fighting Terrorism since 1492.”)
No more than you would be of your brother-in-law if something like that happened. Hank still thinks Walt is squeaky clean.
While Hank’s not stupid he thinks that Jesse is (and while that might be an underestimate he’s certainly not up for any Nobel prizes) and he knows that people who aren’t very bright can’t make it to the level Jesse’s at (very nice house, dealing with Heisenberg) unless they’ve got some powerful patrons out there. He knows Jesse’s a middle man and thinks that Jesse called his patron who rigged the call.
In real life Jesse would be dead. Hank is not only after him as an investigator but has a personal score to settle- if Jesse switches toothpaste brands Hank’s going to know it- and Gus knows that this can lead the DEA to Walt who can lead them to him, and Jesse can’t make him money. There’s no way Gus is going to let Walt bring Jesse to work with him in the lab down under either- he’s too unreliable and he’s a diabetic in the cookie factory down there. IRL, Gus would probably have him rubbed out, or if he was in a super amiable and charitable mood decide it was time to give Jesse an all expenses paid trip to Costa Rica or Aruba (and make sure he stays there), but either way would send Aaron Paul off the series and I doubt they’re going to do that, so I’m wondering what they’ll use to explain why he’s still around.
Maybe, but the whole point of finding and getting in the RV was because Hank suspects it was a meth lab i.e. start of supply chain. Wouldn’t middlemen be distributors or mediators?
for those asking about using meth you can
snort it
smoke it
or shoot it. although my understanding is people who have reached the level of shooting in usually dont live to much longer.