Todd is bright enough to wipe the prints off that jar. He seems to have a very workmanlike grasp of what it takes to be a criminal.
I think Todd’s prison connections (plural, right?) are going to come in handy for Walt when he decides to take care of Mike’s legacy guys. No way is that thread ending without a mess.
I haven’t watched an episode of this show ever, but quite enjoy the threads. Is there no longer any mention at all of Walt’s cancer? Does he not get weaker/sicker with each episode? Is Walt’s cancer like the documentary crew in The Office – just the initial excuse to get the show underway?
I take it that Skyler made oblique reference to wishing the cancer would come back an episode or so ago, but is it ever a plot point other than that? Is he in remission? Is the physical end of Walt (through cancer) in sight? In general I’ve lost track of his cancer. You guys need to do a better of job of covering all bases in these threads (I’m joking, of course).
The cancer went into remission back in Season 2, if I recall, and hasn’t been heard from since other than occasional mention as background. That said, there’s a fair amount of speculation about whether/when it’s going to come back, particularly as Walt has been noticed coughing in a few key scenes and Skyler has pretty much wished it back on him. Plus, y’know–cancer’s like that out here in the real world, though of course on the screen it must bow to the dictates of narrative.
Yes Walt is in remission, but it seems likely to return. Many have speculated the first scene of “Live Free or Die” is a foreshadowing scene of the finale episode in which Walts hair is back (or its a wig)
Yes, Walt is in remission. At this point, he is cancer-free but there has been a hint that it may return before the end of the show in the S5 premiere teaser.
EDIT: Or pretty much what they said. FWIW, the hair in that teaser was really Bryan Cranston’s real hair.
It’s the current that’s really important, not the voltage. 15A would be enough.
Wow, great episode. Everything this whole season has been fantastic. I don’t think Walt is going to try and cook for the new guys-- his whole deal is that he’s on his own now. He may try and sell to them wholesale, but he’s not going to work for them.
I like what LawMonkey said about “real world out there” and I think this is what makes the show fascinating for me. I think Skyler may have desperately wanted to talk to Marie about her life now, but it’s just too painful and humiliating for her to actually say to someone other than Walt how pathetic her life has become. Her way out from going too far with telling Marie was Walt’s interjection of the plausible story of her brief fling, and the knowledge that his twisted logic kept her safe from Marie’s most certain disclosure to Hank. It’s this spider web of deceit makes her angry and resigned to drinking and smoking into oblivion.
Agree, most definitely he’ll try to cut a deal. He’s going on bravado of the Great Heisenburg “pure” meth cook. It worked with Fring.
Thanks for that detail. That means either Walt has dismissed all further treatment or he’s made a complete recovery. I tend to think it’s the former.
Yeah the blurr out was a giggle. I said to my husband, he’s probably writing “Fuck You” for Gomez to find.
I thought that was weird too but I can’t recall them ever saying “fuck” on the show. They did say “asshole” later in the episode. You could tell that the little paper said “Fuck You” on it from a distance when he first wrote it.
Did you notice that we saw the detailed deconstruction of the dirt bike and then its dissolving in acid? And then we were just shown the opening of a second plastic barrel. Obviously they were going to do the same thing to the body of the boy, but didn’t want to show this, so instead we saw it being done to the bike. But it would be interesting to see who took care of the boy’s body, and with what level of horror or enthusiasm. That might have given us more insight into Todd; we already know that Walt is pretty much dead inside. We did see Jesse outside, smoking. Presumably he couldn’t watch the disposal of the boy.
I have to go on record saying I also called the “Fuck you” note. I meant to mention one other thing from that part of the episode: I thought I saw Mike nod a little bit when Hank said Mike is bound to slip up sooner or later. If so, that’s a sign that unlike Walt, Mike is honest about his own capabilities.
Then he’s not a serial killer. Serial killing is a defined set of behaviors that goes beyond committing more than one murder. Walt and Jesse and Mike have killed a few people each and none of them are serial killers. I agree it’s possible Todd has killed other people in the past, although right now I’m thinking probably not. I said an episode ago that he was the hardened criminal type, and in this episode they made it clearer that he is not. He’s a young guy who isn’t above sucking up to guys with more power. His dismissal of the shooting was sick, I agree- he really did not seem at all upset about it. But it’s also true that he was trying to convince the other guys not to fire him or kill him, so of course he downplayed what he’d done.
I already suggested one: it’s possible he is experiencing some remorse even if he’s pushing it aside. It’s possible this is going to turn into evidence at some point, but maybe it’s just the last thing belonging to this kid Todd shot on an impulse that has not been destroyed.
Skyler certainly did want to tell Marie something even if she was not ready to tell her the whole truth. She was tempted to open up about it- right now she’s trapped alone in the conspiracy with Walt, and she hates him. But then Marie revealed that Walt had told her about Ted and that was the end of that. Another case of Walt using the truth to make himself look like a victim.
…and my favorite: 2 guys trying to push a fully loaded dump truck.
I think the story is told in a fairly linear fashion but my thoughts about Walt waiver and I try to dissect the moment I began to loathe him. In life I think that’s actually what we do, especially those people we grow to dislike. So the show has bodly mirrored real life in that sense, and for me that’s what elevates it beyond the typical gangster movie.
I was dumbfounded at how he watched Jane die rather than try to save her. He was seeemingly recoiled in horror, but I am thinking now it’s more about him having to witness someone dying, rather than any sort of compassion for her or Jesse. He is a monster, everything is all about Walt. His narcissism is so throughly drawn now I don’t think we can ever return to the broken man in the school room.
Yes. I’ve actually melted a drill bit once when I accidentally bored a hole through the power cord my hand drill was plugged into.
Agreed, if what he wants is a spider in a jar. But he may also be smart enough that what he wants is leverage over other people to protect himself.
I wonder if they dismembered the body like they had in the past or if, with such a small body, they could just put him in, add acid, and seal it up.
In the past they would just shoehorn a body into the barrel whole and dump acid on them. Dismembering a child’s body seems a bit excessive.
Come to think of it, why did they bother giving the bike an acid bath? The most the acid would do is just etch the surface of the metal. If they wanted to dispose of it they could have just cut it into pieces and take them to the scrapyard guy who destroyed their RV.
I’m confused as to why they did a lot of things. They could have just buried the bike somewhere. No one was gonna go looking for it. Dogs wouldn’t be able to smell it. Hell, they could have dumped that miles away in another part of the desert or even in another suburb and completely screwed up the manhunt.
As for the kid, I still wonder why they didn’t just ditch him somewhere.
I’m wondering if this is going to cause problems later on. Maybe Skyler will somehow find out that they killed and dissolved a kid and that’ll be the final straw to cause her to ‘do something rash’. Who knows.
Also, just for a fun fact. When they went to find the kid actor, they got really lucky and found one that not only races dirt bikes but also has pet tarantulas. So they didn’t have to worry about him being comfortable on a bike or being squeamish with the spider.
No way. Walt is in the Empire building business. Working for Phoenix would be like Gus all over again. There’s no way that it’s going to go down like that.