Even though I saw the kid getting shot from a mile away, it was still chilling to watch. Todd’s friendly wave and his casual withdrawal of the pistol was one of the more disturbing things I’ve seen on the show. People have died, sure. Their disincorprorated bodies have been packed into barrels, dripped through ceilings, and scraped from car grills. But the juxtaposition of Todd’s broad blank friendly face moments before he shot and killed an innocent child? Frightening. What a punch to the gut.
Another holy shit. Gilligan went there. There’ve been a lot of innocents harmed by Walt and Jesse, by the meth, but isn’t this the first innocent who was murdered? Fuck.
The episode was a lot of fun until then.
They could’ve just waved at him and left it at that. It’s unlikely that the kid would’ve thought he’d seen anything out of the ordinary. Even if he did tell someone, there’s nothing to suggest that a robbery had taken place, assuming Walt moved the tanks immediately following the heist.
We’re washing the tracks?
They didn’t have to tell him anything. He’s a little kid. Adults do a lot of things a kid doesn’t understand or question. Say howdy, ask him what he’s doing, admire the spider.
It’ll dilute, but the overall was going to be 4% IIRC, and that would be after mixing. Since they got 30% of their total before they even started adding water, I think the dilution is going to be very small.
And, yeah - shot the kid. Follows Mike’s “no witnesses” rule, but somehow they’ve got to clean up the kid thing. They can’t disappear him - that’ll start a major missing kid hunt, which will uncover the tanks.
Regarding the kid, I figured he was going to find a gas mask and that would be it.
The ‘robbing a train comment’ was perfect’ they way it came right after the ‘you’ve been watching too many movies’ comment.
As for the guy shooting him, I think it had to happen because it proved to us that he wasn’t a DEA agent or cop. Up until now, I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t sure. I was still wondering if he was a cop setting up a sting on the pest people. Yes there will be some fallout from it, but at least we know he’s on ‘our side’ and don’t have to spend page after page after page arguing about it. I was still waiting for him to try to arrest them or swarms of hand DEA agents to show up. Also, you’ll notice the guy with the back hoe was wearing a Vamanos Pest shirt.
Will the bugs in Hank’s office be the downfall of Walt?
Innocents who have died, either directly or indirectly:
Jesse’s GF (Walt could’ve saved her).
The two planes crashing, killing all on board.
Does the kid on the bike, dealing, count? he was a minor.
And now this kid, but I think it’s far more gut wrenching since it was so direct, unecessary and cold blooded.
How many barrels do they need? They’ve got 18 of them now, they could pull the basins out of the ground and put the kid in the ground. Otherwise all they have to do is drag the bike and the kid a mile away towards a main road and leave him there and there won’t be a manhunt. They’ll just find him.
I’m sure they bugged Hank’s office just for that purpose. I don’t think they’ll be stupid enough to leave them. No doubt Walt will remove them.
Then again, there’s no predicting this show!
A less dense liquid would float on top of the more dense liquid. That’s why they drew from the bottom, instead of the top. Wouldn’t make sense to draw from the bottom otherwise.
With a bullet in him.
And, huh… That’s the same time and spot a train had to stop, carrying methlamine, for a broke-down truck… Which just so happened to arrive with a dilute batch of the chemical.
I’m sure they’ll probably bury his body where the tanks are, along with the bike. There’ll still be a manhunt, but they’ll never find the body.
“Hey kid. How’s it going? Whatcha got there in the jar, huh? Is that a — holy shit!”
BLAM BLAM BLAM
It’s probably a good thing I’m not on the team, for all sorts of reasons.
So did I.
I just re-watched the opening scene, and at the very tail end of it, you hear the train approaching. Then the kid looks off into the distance.
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Possibly. He didn’t wear gloves. He might have left usable fingerprints on them.
Drawing from the top would require a pump and a rigid hose (that won’t collapse under the suction…or submersible pump), drawing from the bottom just takes gravity. Open the valve and it pours out. There’s no reason to ever from the top in this scenario.
Also, even if water is less dense, it still needs time to settle, it was being pumped in. It’s going to be mixed for a while. Dump some oil in water, it doesn’t just sit on the top, it takes some time to separate.
Whether or not they’ll address it, water may be mixed in. However, the tank it what, 8 or so feet high, the pump may not have been powerful enough to blast water all the way down to the outlet at the bottom anyways.
Did they know how long the train was going to be? I can’t believe Walt (or Mike) wouldn’t have said “Hold on, there’s no way a train is going to stop in X feet, these things take miles to stop”. Of course, since they measured back to the conveniently located bridge, I’m guessing they did and I missed it.
Nitpicking the heist (since thinking about the kid makes me sick): Didn’t Lydia say that she’d be able to tell them which car had the methylamine? But didn’t they bury the tanks before she checked in and said “I’ve got it”?
Lydia must have been able to control the placement of the cars, no? The tanks had to be buried in that ravine, or the engineers would have seen them siphoning. So were all the cars destined for Madrigal? And a corporate desk jockey can tell Union Pacific how to place their cars?
Also, I’ve heard it takes a mile for a train going 55 mph to stop. That wasn’t a mile.
At first; until the water mixed in with the methylamine during transport.
I keep going back to Walk telling Todd something like “Only you, me, Jesse and Mike can ever know about this. Understand?”
The precursor is less dense than water. A less dense liquid would float on top of the more dense liquid. That’s why they drew from the bottom, instead of the top. No chance of diluting. The generator they were using would not have had the power to fire the less dense water to the bottom of the tank. I mean… They weren’t using an actual pump… Just hoses. The generator was there only because they had to draw uphill. The bottom draw would be simple gravity. No need for the generator there.
Drawing from the top would be no different than siphening gas from a gas tank. Absolutely no need for anything as complicated as you described. It would have been going downhill. Get the draw started, and the laws of physics would take care of the rest.
I’ve worked with tanker trucks for a cpl decades. I know what I’m talking about here.
This is why it’s good to really study your math story problem kids!
“If train A is going 55 mph, with car B carrying 24,000 gallons of a meth precursor, how many feet of clearance do you need for it to stop at the RR crossing, allowing Team C to rob car B from train A?”
I didn’t catch it, but in reading the AV Club’s review, as the kid rode away with the spider in the cold open, you hear a train whistle.